Valley Center High

As a sprawling high school in Valley Center, Kansas, Valley Center High instructs 1,011 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Valley Center Pub Sch. That puts it 147% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Valley Center Pub Sch comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,177 students; Valley Center High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Valley Center High reports that 74% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, The school reports having 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at Valley Center High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sedgwick County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Valley Center High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.4%, the actual is 30.2%, a residual of -12.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Sedgwick County shows median household earnings sit near $69,365, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Valley Center High is one.

Valley Center Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valley Center High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.9%.

Valley Center High operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 17%: 864 students in 2018 compared to 1,011 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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