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Enrollment
1,946
High
DISTRICT 1,011 · STATE 410
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN CITY·NCES 200639001175
Garden City High School
2720 Buffalo Way BLVD, Garden City, KS 67846 · (620) 805-5400 · Finney County
GRADES 09–12HIGH33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,946 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Kansas public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
129 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 11.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
1,360 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 544 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 520 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 465 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 417 | 21% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Garden City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
21.8%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
18.9%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.8% | 18.9% |
| 2023-24 | 12.5% | 5.7% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Garden City High School
Garden City High School's state test result (14.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden City High School this school | 1,946 | 69.9% | 14.9% |
| Dodge City High School Dodge City | 2,178 | 78.9% | 18.0% |
| Turner High Kansas City | 1,147 | 76.3% | 11.7% |
| North High Wichita | 2,041 | 86.2% | 13.7% |
| Ulysses High Ulysses | 438 | 71.2% | 21.5% |
| J C Harmon High Kansas City | 1,285 | 75.7% | 4.3% |
Matched among Kansas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Garden City High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.9% | #244 of 262 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #232 of 262 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #246 of 262 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,946 | #9 of 332 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #134 of 172 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.5% | #61 of 172 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.9% | #23 of 263 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.1% | #61 of 100 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,946
-26 (-1%) vs 2020
+73% since 1990-91, when it was 1,127
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,946 | 128.6 | 15.1:1 | 70% (1,360) |
| 2023-24 | 1,976 | 126.9 | 15.6:1 | 68% (1,339) |
| 2022-23 | 1,973 | 126.3 | 15.6:1 | 62% (1,218) |
| 2020-21 | 1,972 | 121 | 16.3:1 | 60% (1,191) |
| 2017-18 | 2,072 | 122.6 | 16.9:1 | 64% (1,330) |
| 2015-16 | 2,155 | 117 | 18.4:1 | 66% (1,415) |
| 2010-11 | 1,986 | 124 | 16.0:1 | 59% (1,179) |
| 2000-01 | 1,912 | 121 | 15.8:1 | 33% (622) |
| 1990-91 | 1,127 | 73 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Garden City High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (2,072 to 1,946); teachers up 5% (122.6 to 128.6).
About Garden City High School
Garden City High School is the name of a large high school in Garden City, Kansas. The school reports 1,946 students in grades 9 through 12. The school's enrollment is 375% bigger than the 410 average for high schools in Kansas.
Garden City has 7,032 students spread across 18 schools.
Garden City High School is 71% Hispanic by enrollment. Other students are 19% White, 4% Asian, and 4% Black. By comparison, Finney County residents are about 53% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 45% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 128.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.1 students per teacher. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.9:1 average for high schools in Kansas. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 70%. That tracks the 73% average for public schools in Finney County.
allk12 grades Garden City High School a D. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 28.7% for Garden City High School. The school posts 14.9%, 13.9 points below the prediction.
County data help place the school in context: in Finney County, the median household income is $73,009, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. In all, Finney County has 23 public schools and roughly 7,939 students.
The next-closest public school is Florence Wilson Elem, about 0.6 miles away. Garden City High School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Garden City High School at 8th of 9.
For locale, NCES codes Garden City High School as Town: Remote.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 1,972 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 1,946. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 15.1:1, from 16.3:1.
Posts about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs are welcome on this page. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Finney County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
38,084
Census ACS
Median income
$73,009
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
7,939 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garden City
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
- Bernadine Sitts Intermediate CtrMiddle · 367 students
Other schools in Garden City
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
- Bernadine Sitts Intermediate CtrMiddle · 367 students
Other Garden City High schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Garden City High. Garden City High School is the largest of the 4.
- GARDEN CITY HIGH SCHOOLGARDEN CITY, NY · 1,096 students
- Garden City High SchoolGARDEN CITY, MI · 896 students
- Garden City High SchoolGARDEN CITY, TX · 157 students
Nearby schools
- Florence Wilson Elem0.6 mi · 376
- Kenneth Henderson Middle0.7 mi · 425
- Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr1.2 mi · 367
- Jennie Wilson Elem1.3 mi · 796
- Georgia Matthews Elem1.7 mi · 112
- Victor Ornelas Elem1.8 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About Garden City High SchoolHow many students attend Garden City High School?
Garden City High School enrolls approximately 1,946 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Garden City High School serve?
Garden City High School serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Garden City High School?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at Garden City High School.
What is the student diversity at Garden City High School?
Student demographics at Garden City High School are roughly 19% White, 71% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Garden City High School public or private?
Garden City High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Garden City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.