Osborne Junior/Senior High

As a minimally staffed high school in Osborne, Kansas, Osborne Junior/Senior High teaches 157 students from grades 6 through 12, run under Osborne County. That puts it 62% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Osborne County comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 351 students; Osborne Junior/Senior High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Osborne Junior/Senior High records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Osborne Junior/Senior High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Osborne County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, Osborne Junior/Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.8%, the actual is 40.3%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Osborne County shows median household income runs about $63,011, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Osborne County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 593 students), of which Osborne Junior/Senior High is one.

The closest other public school is Osborne Elem, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Osborne Junior/Senior High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Osborne Junior/Senior High's enrollment has edged up 38% since 2018, when it stood at 114 (now 157).

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