Hanover High

Hanover High operates as a micro-enrollment high school in Hanover, Kansas, overseen by Barnes. Current enrollment sits at 60 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 85% below the state mean of about 410.

Barnes comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 518 students; Hanover High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hanover High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). The remainder comes out to 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Washington County's rate of about 37%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hanover High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.0%; actual is 27.5%, a gap of -27.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Washington County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,482 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Washington County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,079 students), Hanover High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hanover Elem, roughly 0.0 miles away. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hanover High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 43.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 77 students in 2018 compared to 60 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.