Kiowa County Junior High/High School

Located at 720 S. Main, in Greensburg, Kansas, Kiowa County Junior High/High School is a micro-enrollment high school that educates 131 students (grades 6 through 12), run under Kiowa County. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Kiowa County Junior High/High School sits 68% below that benchmark.

Within Kiowa County, which oversees 2 schools and 261 students, Kiowa County Junior High/High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kiowa County Junior High/High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest looks like 10% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Kiowa County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kiowa County Junior High/High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -14.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Kiowa County shows median household income runs about $75,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Kiowa County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 343 students), of which Kiowa County Junior High/High School is one.

Kiowa County Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kiowa County Junior High/High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Kiowa County Junior High/High School's enrollment has climbed 90% since 2018, when it stood at 69 (now 131). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 6.7:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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