Mill Valley High School

Mill Valley High School is one of the high-enrollment four-year high schools in Shawnee, Kansas, one of the schools within De Soto, with 1,432 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 249% larger than the state mean of about 410.

Mill Valley High School is one of 13 schools operated by De Soto, a district that serves 7,067 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Mill Valley High School reports that White students make up the majority at 79%. Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Mill Valley High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mill Valley High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.4%.

Around the school, Johnson County reports that median household income runs about $109,208, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Mill Valley High School is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Nearest neighbor: Monticello Trails Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mill Valley High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.

Mill Valley High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mill Valley High School's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,367 (now 1,432).

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