Maize South High School

Set in Wichita, Kansas, Maize South High School is a sizable high school, one of the schools within Maize. It serves 1,107 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 170% bigger than the state mean of about 410.

Within Maize, which oversees 12 schools and 8,065 students, Maize South High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Maize South High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Sedgwick County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, Maize South High School is in the bottom 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.8%; Maize South High School posts 32.5%, -17.3 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Sedgwick County put the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Maize South High School is one.

The closest other public school is Maize Virtual Preparatory School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maize South High School. On composite proficiency, Maize South High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

Maize South High School operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 25%: 887 students in 2018 compared to 1,107 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 69% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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