Southeast High

Southeast High is one of the one-room-style senior highs in Cherokee, Kansas, overseen by Cherokee, with 152 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 410 students per school, that is 63% smaller than typical.

Cherokee runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 429 students. Southeast High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Southeast High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. Compared to Crawford County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Southeast High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 18.9%, a residual of -13.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Crawford County) reports that median household income runs about $52,844, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Southeast High is one of 17 public schools in Crawford County (combined enrollment of about 6,146 students).

Southeast Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southeast High ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southeast High has shrank 12%, going from 172 students in 2018 to 152 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 91% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.