Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School

Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School operates as a rural-scale senior high in Peabody, Kansas, run under Peabody-Burns. Current enrollment sits at 102 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 410 students per school, that is 75% leaner than typical.

Across the 2 schools in Peabody-Burns (206 students total), Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% of students are eligible 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, Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 37.8%; this one comes in at 16.8%, -21.0 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household earnings sit near $64,695, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Marion County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,153 students), Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Peabody-Burns Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School's enrollment has contracted 30% since 2018, when it stood at 145 (now 102). White enrollment moved from 92% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 6.9:1 today.

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