Norton High

Norton High is one of the modestly sized secondary schools in Norton, Kansas, operated by Norton Community Schools, with 181 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 410.

Norton Community Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 701 students; Norton High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Norton High logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Norton High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Norton High qualify 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, Norton High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.2%; this one comes in at 25.4%, -14.9 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Norton County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,050 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Norton High is one of 5 public schools in Norton County (combined enrollment of about 820 students).

The closest other public school is Norton Jr High, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Norton High comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Norton High's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 214 (now 181).

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