Marmaton Valley High

Marmaton Valley High is one of the rural-scale 9-12 campuss in Moran, Kansas, operated by Marmaton Valley, with 135 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 67% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Within Marmaton Valley, which oversees 3 schools and 276 students, Marmaton Valley High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marmaton Valley High lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marmaton Valley High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Allen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,689 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Allen County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,464 students), Marmaton Valley High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Marmaton Valley Virtual School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marmaton Valley High at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.8%.

Marmaton Valley High operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Marmaton Valley High's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 129 (now 135). White enrollment moved from 91% to 84% across the same window.

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