Meade High

Meade High is an one-room-style senior high in Meade, Kansas, part of Meade. The school caters to 87 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 79% below the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Across the 2 schools in Meade (330 students total), Meade High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Meade High logs that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Meade County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Meade High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Meade County put the typical household earns roughly $71,852 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Meade County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 530 students), of which Meade High is one.

The closest other public school is Meade Elem, roughly 0.8 miles away. On composite proficiency, Meade High comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meade High has decreased 43%, going from 152 students in 2018 to 87 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.