Northwest High

Northwest High operates as a substantial 9-12 campus in Wichita, Kansas, one of the schools within Wichita. Current enrollment sits at 1,424 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 247% bigger than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Northwest High is one of 87 schools operated by Wichita, a district that works with 47,545 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Northwest High logs that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 26% Hispanic, 15% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Northwest High higher than the state norm the norm. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Northwest High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 25.0%, a residual of -7.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Sedgwick County put median household income runs about $69,365, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Northwest High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kensler Elem, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northwest High at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 24.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 9%: 1,311 students in 2018 compared to 1,424 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 53% to 48%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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