Enrollment
133
High
DISTRICT 1,219 · STATE 410
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299000345
Wichita Alternative High
1847 N Chautauqua, Wichita, KS 67214 · (316) 973-0500 · Sedgwick County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL133 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of Kansas public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public high schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
11 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 11.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
121 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 1 | 1% |
| Grade 10 | 6 | 5% |
| Grade 11 | 50 | 38% |
| Grade 12 | 76 | 57% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
11.1%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
0.0%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 0 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 11.1% | 0.0% |
| 2023-24 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
2.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.6%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 3% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 19% 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.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wichita Alternative High
Wichita Alternative High's state test result (2.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita Alternative High this school | 133 | 91.0% | 2.6% |
| Lawrence Gardner High School Topeka | 111 | 91.9% | N/A |
| Sowers Alternative High School Wichita | 60 | 95.0% | N/A |
| Highland Park High Topeka | 835 | 80.5% | 8.3% |
| Hope Street Charter Academy Topeka | 103 | 78.6% | 9.8% |
| Alfred Fairfax Academy Kansas City | 52 | 82.7% | 1.4% |
Matched among Kansas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wichita Alternative High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 2.6% | #262 of 262 | #21 of 21 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 0.0% | #262 of 262 | #21 of 21 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 11.1% | #259 of 262 | #21 of 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 133 | #230 of 332 | #21 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.0% | #2 of 263 | #1 of 21 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
133
+39 (+41%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 216
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 7.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 133 | 10.5 | 12.7:1 | 91% (121) |
| 2023-24 | 266 | 16.5 | 16.1:1 | 84% (224) |
| 2022-23 | 238 | 14.5 | 16.4:1 | 71% (170) |
| 2020-21 | 94 | 13 | 7.2:1 | 82% (77) |
| 2017-18 | 104 | 8.3 | 12.5:1 | 71% (74) |
| 2015-16 | 99 | N/A | N/A | 72% (71) |
| 2010-11 | 139 | 13 | 10.7:1 | 86% (120) |
| 2000-01 | 136 | 11 | 12.4:1 | 44% (60) |
| 1990-91 | 216 | 10 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wichita Alternative High.
Since 2017-18: students up 28% (104 to 133); teachers up 26% (8.3 to 10.5).
About Wichita Alternative High
Wichita Alternative High is a small high school in Wichita, located in Wichita, Kansas. The school enrolls 133 students, from grades 9 through 12. An average school in this group (high schools in Kansas) has about 410 students.
Wichita has 47,545 students in 87 schools, and Wichita Alternative High is one of those schools.
Wichita Alternative High has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 35%. Other students are 31% White, 26% Black, and 7% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County residents are about 17% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 12.7:1, with 10.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is higher than the 11.9:1 average for high schools in Kansas. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Wichita Alternative High is 91%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Sedgwick County is 63%.
allk12 grades Wichita Alternative High a D. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school in Kansas with Wichita Alternative High's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 18.6%. Wichita Alternative High scores 2.6%.
Census Bureau estimates for Sedgwick County show that the median household income is $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Wichita Alternative High is one of 160 public schools in the county.
Of nearby public schools, Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Wichita Alternative High. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Wichita Alternative High ranks 9th on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, federal data counted 94 students at Wichita Alternative High; in 2024-25, 133. The grades served may not have been the same in both years. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 7.2:1 to 12.7:1.
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Sedgwick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
528,226
Census ACS
Median income
$69,365
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
84,569 students
Quick facts
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- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
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- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
Nearby schools
- Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne0.2 mi · 304
- Spaght Multimedia Magnet0.9 mi · 480
- Gordon Parks Academy1.0 mi · 485
- L'Ouverture Computer Technology Magnet1.3 mi · 232
- Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem1.3 mi · 313
- Brooks Magnet Middle School1.4 mi · 578
Frequently asked questions
About Wichita Alternative HighHow large is Wichita Alternative High?
Wichita Alternative High enrolls approximately 133 students in grades 09-12.
Is Wichita Alternative High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wichita Alternative High is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Wichita Alternative High?
Approximately 12.7:1 students per teacher at Wichita Alternative High.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wichita Alternative High?
At Wichita Alternative High, the student body is approximately 31% White, 35% Hispanic, 26% Black, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Wichita Alternative High?
Wichita Alternative High is overseen by Wichita in Sedgwick County.
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