Enrollment
53
High
DISTRICT 58 · STATE 410
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARAIS DES CYGNES VALLEY·NCES 200948001165
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High
508 NE Main, Melvern, KS 66510 · (785) 549-3313 · Osage County
GRADES 09–12HIGH43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL53 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Kansas public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public high schools
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
6 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.9:1 · STATE 11.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
32 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 12 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 14 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 17 | 32% |
| Grade 12 | 10 | 19% |
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
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KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
30.8%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
92.3%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.8% | 92.3% |
| 2023-24 | 16.0% | 26.1% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.3%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Marais Des Cygnes Valley High
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High's state test result (33.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marais Des Cygnes Valley High this school | 53 | 60.4% | 33.1% |
| Stockton High Stockton | 83 | 57.8% | 20.0% |
| Altoona-Midway Middle/High School Buffalo | 79 | 64.6% | 15.9% |
| Tescott Junior High/High School Tescott | 72 | 55.6% | 41.9% |
| South Barber 7-12 Kiowa | 87 | 63.2% | 29.0% |
| Madison High Madison | 106 | 57.5% | 39.8% |
Matched among Kansas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Marais Des Cygnes Valley High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 53 | #304 of 332 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
53
-9 (-15%) vs 2020
-50% since 1990-91, when it was 107
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 8.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53 | 6.1 | 8.8:1 | 60% (32) |
| 2023-24 | 68 | 4.9 | 13.9:1 | 59% (40) |
| 2022-23 | 73 | 5.9 | 12.4:1 | 52% (38) |
| 2020-21 | 62 | 7 | 8.9:1 | 53% (33) |
| 2017-18 | 60 | 8.7 | 6.9:1 | 53% (32) |
| 2015-16 | 79 | 10 | 7.9:1 | 54% (43) |
| 2010-11 | 96 | 7 | 13.7:1 | 52% (50) |
| 2000-01 | 99 | 11 | 9.0:1 | 32% (32) |
| 1990-91 | 107 | 10 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Marais Des Cygnes Valley High.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (60 to 53); teachers down 30% (8.7 to 6.1).
About Marais Des Cygnes Valley High
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High is a small high school in Melvern, Kansas. The grade span is 9 through 12, and enrollment is 53 students. An average school in this group (high schools in Kansas) has about 410 students.
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High is one school in a 3-school district, Marais Des Cygnes Valley, which enrolls 175 students.
Most students at Marais Des Cygnes Valley High are White: 91% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 6% multiracial. County-wide, about 93% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at Marais Des Cygnes Valley High belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 18%.
The teaching staff at Marais Des Cygnes Valley High is 6.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 8.8:1. That ratio is under the 11.9:1 average for high schools in Kansas. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 60%. For comparison, public schools in Osage County average 48%.
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 75% of Kansas public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (33.1% versus 33.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Kansas.
Census estimates describe Osage County this way: median household income is about $74,467, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Osage County number 13 and enroll about 2,587.
Nearby, Marais Des Cygnes Valley Middle is less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within ten miles number 7. Marais Des Cygnes Valley High is 6th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES lists the school's locale as Rural: Remote. That means it sits in rural territory far from an urban area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 53, 15% below the 62 of 2020-21.
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Osage County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
15,744
Census ACS
Median income
$74,467
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
2,587 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marais Des Cygnes Valley
- Marais Des Cygnes Valley ElemElementary · 87 students
- Marais Des Cygnes Valley MiddleMiddle · 35 students
Nearby schools
- Marais Des Cygnes Valley Middle0.0 mi · 35
- Lyndon Elem7.1 mi · 294
- Lyndon High7.2 mi · 124
- Marais Des Cygnes Valley Elem7.6 mi · 87
- Waverly Elem8.2 mi · 136
- Waverly High8.2 mi · 105
Frequently asked questions
About Marais Des Cygnes Valley HighHow large is Marais Des Cygnes Valley High?
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High enrolls approximately 53 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Marais Des Cygnes Valley High serve?
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Marais Des Cygnes Valley High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Marais Des Cygnes Valley High is approximately 8.8:1 (6 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Marais Des Cygnes Valley High?
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High reports a student body of 91% White, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Two or more.
What district is Marais Des Cygnes Valley High in?
Marais Des Cygnes Valley High is part of Marais Des Cygnes Valley.
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