Lakeside Junior/Senior High School

As a rural-scale senior high in Downs, Kansas, Lakeside Junior/Senior High School hosts 127 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within Waconda. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Lakeside Junior/Senior High School sits 69% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Waconda (336 students total), Lakeside Junior/Senior High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lakeside Junior/Senior High School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lakeside Junior/Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.3%; this one delivers 48.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Osborne County shows median household earnings sit near $63,011, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Osborne County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 593 students), Lakeside Junior/Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lakeside Elementary, roughly 5.8 miles away. 3 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), Lakeside Junior/Senior High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Lakeside Junior/Senior High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 126 (now 127). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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