Ness City High

Ness City High is one of the tiny secondary schools in Ness City, Kansas, operated by Ness City, with 122 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 70% below the state mean of about 410.

Ness City comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 277 students; Ness City High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Ness City High logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Ness City High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ness County (around 48%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Ness City High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Ness County shows median household income runs about $68,616, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Ness City High is one of 5 public schools in Ness County (combined enrollment of about 404 students).

The closest other public school is Ness City Elem, roughly 0.1 miles away. On composite proficiency, Ness City High comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 150 students in 2018 compared to 122 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 today.

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