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F L Schlagle High
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingWhat this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 6% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 27% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About F L Schlagle High
Set in Kansas City, Kansas, F L Schlagle High is a roomy secondary school, run under Kansas City. It instructs 841 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so F L Schlagle High sits 105% bigger than that benchmark.
Kansas City comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 21,538 students; F L Schlagle High is among them.
On demographics, F L Schlagle High shows that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 27% Black, 6% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.
In terms of school funding signals, F L Schlagle High records 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting F L Schlagle High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, F L Schlagle High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 26.6%; this one comes in at 6.0%, -20.5 points off the demographic line.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Wyandotte County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,631 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. F L Schlagle High is one of 62 public schools in Wyandotte County (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students).
Gloria Willis Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around F L Schlagle High. On composite proficiency, F L Schlagle High comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 14.6%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at F L Schlagle High has edged down 22%, going from 1,085 students in 2018 to 841 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 40% to 57%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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