Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School

Located at 710 E. Madison, in Mankato, Kansas, Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School is a cozy 9-12 campus that instructs 175 students (grades 6 through 12), run under Rock Hills. Compared to the state average of about 410 students per school, that is 57% below typical.

Within Rock Hills, which oversees 2 schools and 362 students, Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.7%; this one delivers 33.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jewell County indicate median household earnings sit near $52,634, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Jewell County's 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 362 students), Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Rock Hills Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School has increased 20%, going from 146 students in 2018 to 175 in 2025.

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