Shawnee Mission South High

Shawnee Mission South High operates as a heavily attended secondary school in Overland Park, Kansas, operated by Shawnee Mission Pub Sch. Current enrollment sits at 1,574 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Shawnee Mission South High sits 284% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Shawnee Mission South High logs that White students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school records 21% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Shawnee Mission South High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Shawnee Mission South High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.0%; this one delivers 36.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household income runs about $109,208, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Shawnee Mission South High is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

The closest other public school is Indian Woods Middle, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shawnee Mission South High ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.0%.

Shawnee Mission South High operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Shawnee Mission South High's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,522 (now 1,574). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 17% to 21% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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