Wichita Alternative High

Wichita Alternative High is an one-room-style 9-12 campus in Wichita, Kansas, operated by Wichita. The school serves 133 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 410 students per school, that is 68% below typical.

Within Wichita, which oversees 87 schools and 47,545 students, Wichita Alternative High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wichita Alternative High logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 31% White, 26% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Wichita Alternative High has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Wichita Alternative High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sedgwick County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wichita Alternative High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 18.6%; this one comes in at 2.6%, -16.0 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Sedgwick County reports that median household income runs about $69,365, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Wichita Alternative High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wichita Alternative High. On composite proficiency, Wichita Alternative High comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 16.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 28%: 104 students in 2018 compared to 133 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 16% to 35%.

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