Kinsley Jr/Sr High School

Kinsley Jr/Sr High School is a 9-12 campus of one-room-style scale in Kinsley, Kansas, run under Kinsley-Offerle, caters to 135 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Kinsley Jr/Sr High School sits 67% leaner than that benchmark.

Kinsley Jr/Sr High School is one of 2 schools operated by Kinsley-Offerle, a district that hosts 263 students overall.

Demographically, Kinsley Jr/Sr High School reports that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 26% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at Kinsley Jr/Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Edwards County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kinsley Jr/Sr High School is in the bottom 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.9%; Kinsley Jr/Sr High School posts 24.9%, -16.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Edwards County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,692 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Kinsley Jr/Sr High School is one of 3 public schools in Edwards County (combined enrollment of about 335 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kinsley-Offerle Elementary Pre-K-5, around 8.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kinsley Jr/Sr High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kinsley Jr/Sr High School has fell 6%, going from 143 students in 2018 to 135 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 65% to 73% over that span.

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