Santa Fe Trail High

Set in Carbondale, Kansas, Santa Fe Trail High is a low-enrollment senior high, run under Santa Fe Trail. It instructs 308 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Santa Fe Trail runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,009 students. Santa Fe Trail High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Santa Fe Trail High lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages about 11.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Santa Fe Trail High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.1%; this one comes in at 17.1%, -23.0 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Osage County indicate median household income runs about $74,467, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Osage County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,587 students), of which Santa Fe Trail High is one.

Carbondale Attendance Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Santa Fe Trail High comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

Santa Fe Trail High operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 340 students in 2018 compared to 308 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.