Scott City High

As a small four-year high school in Scott City, Kansas, Scott City High hosts 302 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Scott County. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 410.

Scott County runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 945 students. Scott City High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Scott City High logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. The state averages about 11.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Scott City High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Scott County reports that median household income runs about $68,839, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 945 students), of which Scott City High is one.

Scott Community Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Scott City High. On composite proficiency, Scott City High comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 17%: 259 students in 2018 compared to 302 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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