West Franklin High School

West Franklin High School operates as a low-enrollment secondary school in Pomona, Kansas, part of West Franklin. Current enrollment sits at 200 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 410 students per school, that is 51% smaller than typical.

Across the 4 schools in West Franklin (642 students total), West Franklin High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, West Franklin High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest comes out to 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Franklin County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting West Franklin High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, West Franklin High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.5%; actual is 22.1%, a gap of -15.5 points.

Around the school, Franklin County reports that median household earnings sit near $77,207, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Franklin County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,187 students), of which West Franklin High School is one.

West Franklin Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 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), West Franklin High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.6%.

West Franklin High School operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. West Franklin High School's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 177 (now 200). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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