Shawnee Mission North High

Shawnee Mission North High is one of the high-enrollment high schools in Overland Park, Kansas, overseen by Shawnee Mission Pub Sch, with 1,502 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Shawnee Mission North High sits 266% larger than that benchmark.

Shawnee Mission Pub Sch comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 26,330 students; Shawnee Mission North High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Shawnee Mission North High shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the resource side, On paper, Shawnee Mission North High has 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Shawnee Mission North High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Shawnee Mission North High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Shawnee Mission North High is one.

Crestview Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Shawnee Mission North High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shawnee Mission North High has stayed largely flat, going from 1,525 students in 2018 to 1,502 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 56% to 49%.

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