Heights High

Heights High is one of the heavily attended secondary schools in Wichita, Kansas, overseen by Wichita, with 1,505 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 267% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Wichita comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 47,545 students; Heights High is among them.

On demographics, Heights High logs that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% White, 21% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Heights High logs 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Heights High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 75% of students at Heights High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Heights High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 12.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Sedgwick County shows median household earnings sit near $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Heights High is one.

Stucky Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Heights High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Heights High at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 25.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heights High has grew 36%, going from 1,110 students in 2018 to 1,505 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 39% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.