Palco High

Located at 502 Ash Street, in Palco, Kansas, Palco High is a micro-enrollment secondary school that works with 19 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Palco. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Palco High sits 95% below that benchmark.

Palco comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 77 students; Palco High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Palco High lists that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

Looking at school resources, Palco High records 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at Palco High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Rooks County's rate of about 48%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Rooks County put median household income runs about $62,500, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 2%. Across Rooks County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 812 students), Palco High is one campus in the mix.

Palco Jr. High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 32%: 28 students in 2018 compared to 19 in 2025. The White share of enrollment increased from 82% to 100% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 6.7:1 in 2018 to 5.3:1 today.

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