Silver Lake Jr-Sr High

Silver Lake Jr-Sr High is one of the average-sized high schools in Silver Lake, Kansas, part of Silver Lake, with 355 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12.

Silver Lake comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 710 students; Silver Lake Jr-Sr High is among them.

Demographically, Silver Lake Jr-Sr High logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Silver Lake Jr-Sr High has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at Silver Lake Jr-Sr High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Shawnee County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Silver Lake Jr-Sr High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.2%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of -4.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Shawnee County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,104 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Shawnee County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,294 students), of which Silver Lake Jr-Sr High is one.

The closest other public school is Silver Lake Elem, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Silver Lake Jr-Sr High at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Silver Lake Jr-Sr High's enrollment has edged up 15% since 2018, when it stood at 309 (now 355). Class-load math has widened: from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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