Rock Creek High School

Rock Creek High School is a mid-sized high school in St George, Kansas, operated by Rock Creek. The school works with 415 students in grades 9 through 12.

Rock Creek comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,330 students; Rock Creek High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Rock Creek High School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Rock Creek High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.9%; actual is 33.7%, a gap of -17.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Pottawatomie County shows median household income runs about $92,325, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Pottawatomie County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,283 students), Rock Creek High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rock Creek Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rock Creek High School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 436 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025.

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