Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School
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Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingWhat this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School
Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School is a high school of low-enrollment scale in Johnson, Kansas, part of Stanton County, educateing 182 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 410 students per school, that is 56% leaner than typical.
Stanton County comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 420 students; Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 33% White. The wider county runs roughly 46% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.3%; actual is 17.2%, a gap of -17.1 points.
In the surrounding community, Stanton County reports that median household income runs about $71,700, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 0%. Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School is one of 2 public schools in Stanton County (combined enrollment of about 420 students).
Stanton County Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stanton County Jr./Sr. High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 203 students in 2018 compared to 182 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 33% across the same window.
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Stanton County at a glance
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