Hamilton High

Set in Hamilton, Kansas, Hamilton High is a very small four-year high school, part of Hamilton. It teaches 41 students across grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 410 students per school, that is 90% below typical.

Hamilton runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 90 students. Hamilton High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Hamilton High logs that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 2% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.7:1. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hamilton High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Greenwood County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,042 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Greenwood County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 869 students), of which Hamilton High is one.

Hamilton Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Hamilton High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 14%: 36 students in 2018 compared to 41 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 89% to 98%.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Hamilton High typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.