Sabetha High School

Located at 1011 Bluejay Blvd, in Sabetha, Kansas, Sabetha High School is a modestly sized senior high that caters to 217 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Prairie Hills. That puts it 47% leaner than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Across the 5 schools in Prairie Hills (953 students total), Sabetha High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Sabetha High School records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Nemaha County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sabetha High School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Sabetha High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -11.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Nemaha County put the typical household earns roughly $77,348 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sabetha High School is one of 9 public schools in Nemaha County (combined enrollment of about 1,884 students).

Sabetha Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sabetha High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Sabetha High School's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 217). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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