J C Harmon High

Set in Kansas City, Kansas, J C Harmon High is an expansive senior high, overseen by Kansas City. It works with 1,285 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so J C Harmon High sits 213% above that benchmark.

Kansas City runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,538 students. J C Harmon High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, J C Harmon High records that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Black, 9% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, J C Harmon High logs 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting J C Harmon High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, J C Harmon High is in the bottom 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.9%; J C Harmon High posts 4.3%, -21.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Wyandotte County put median household earnings sit near $63,631, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wyandotte County runs 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), of which J C Harmon High is one.

Silver City Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, J C Harmon High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at J C Harmon High has shrank 6%, going from 1,368 students in 2018 to 1,285 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 13% to 9%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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