Walton-Verona High School

Walton-Verona High School is a middle-of-the-pack high school in Walton, Kentucky, part of Walton-Verona Independent. The school hosts 548 students in grades 9 through 12.

Walton-Verona Independent comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,880 students; Walton-Verona High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Walton-Verona High School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Walton-Verona High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 47.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Boone County shows median household income runs about $99,414, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Boone County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,394 students), of which Walton-Verona High School is one.

Walton-Verona Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Walton-Verona High School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Walton-Verona High School's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 533 (now 548). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.