Tescott Junior High/High School

Located at 305 N. Minnesota, in Tescott, Kansas, Tescott Junior High/High School is a minimally staffed senior high that teaches 72 students (grades 7 through 12), overseen by Twin Valley. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Tescott Junior High/High School sits 82% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Twin Valley (595 students total), Tescott Junior High/High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Tescott Junior High/High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ottawa County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tescott Junior High/High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 41.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ottawa County) records that median household earnings sit near $74,018, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Tescott Junior High/High School is one of 6 public schools in Ottawa County (combined enrollment of about 1,193 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tescott Elem, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, Tescott Junior High/High School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Tescott Junior High/High School's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 70 (now 72). The White share of enrollment expanded from 89% to 94% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 6.5:1 in 2025.

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