Shawnee Heights High

Shawnee Heights High operates as a well-populated 9-12 campus in Tecumseh, Kansas, operated by Shawnee Heights. Current enrollment sits at 1,218 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 197% bigger than the state mean of about 410.

Shawnee Heights High is one of 6 schools operated by Shawnee Heights, a district that instructs 3,646 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Shawnee Heights High records that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Shawnee County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Shawnee Heights High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of -14.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Shawnee County reports that median household income runs about $67,104, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Shawnee County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,294 students), Shawnee Heights High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Shawnee Heights Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Shawnee Heights High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shawnee Heights High at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 29.2%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Shawnee Heights High's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,151 (now 1,218). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 68% to 62%.

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