South Central High School

As a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in Coldwater, Kansas, South Central High School teaches 88 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Comanche County. That puts it 79% leaner than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

South Central High School is one of 3 schools operated by Comanche County, a district that works with 322 students overall.

Looking at the student body, South Central High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Comanche County as a whole is about 95% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting South Central High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Comanche County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, South Central High School is in the bottom 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.9%; South Central High School posts 23.5%, -16.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, Comanche County reports that median household earnings sit near $54,545, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. South Central High School is one of 3 public schools in Comanche County (combined enrollment of about 322 students).

The closest other public school is South Central Elementary School, roughly 10.3 miles away. On composite proficiency, South Central High School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. South Central High School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 89 (now 88).

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