Wichita County Junior-Senior High School

Wichita County Junior-Senior High School, a modestly sized 9-12 campus in Leoti, Kansas, operated by Leoti, serves 187 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Wichita County Junior-Senior High School sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Wichita County Junior-Senior High School is one of 2 schools operated by Leoti, a district that works with 408 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wichita County Junior-Senior High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest reads as 42% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Wichita County Junior-Senior High School shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Wichita County Junior-Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wichita County Junior-Senior High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.6%; this one delivers 29.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Wichita County) records that median household income runs about $79,063, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Wichita County's 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 408 students), Wichita County Junior-Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Wichita County Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. On composite proficiency, Wichita County Junior-Senior High School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 9%: 172 students in 2018 compared to 187 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 49% to 42%. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.5:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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