Waverly High

Waverly High is one of the tiny high schools in Waverly, Kansas, run under Lebo-Waverly, with 105 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Waverly High sits 74% below that benchmark.

Within Lebo-Waverly, which oversees 4 schools and 517 students, Waverly High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Waverly High lists that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Waverly High reports 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Waverly High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.2%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Coffey County indicate median household income runs about $70,346, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Waverly High is one of 10 public schools in Coffey County (combined enrollment of about 1,498 students).

Waverly Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Waverly High comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

Waverly High operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 12%: 94 students in 2018 compared to 105 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 7.9:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.