Hillsboro Middle/High School

Hillsboro Middle/High School is one of the low-enrollment senior highs in Hillsboro, Kansas, overseen by Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh, with 310 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 410.

Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 596 students. Hillsboro Middle/High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Hillsboro Middle/High School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hillsboro Middle/High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that median household income runs about $64,695, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marion County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,153 students), of which Hillsboro Middle/High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hillsboro Elem, around 0.2 miles off. On composite proficiency, Hillsboro Middle/High School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 8%: 287 students in 2018 compared to 310 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Hillsboro Middle/High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.