Southeast High

Southeast High is a substantial senior high in Wichita, Kansas, operated by Wichita. The school educates 2,066 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 404% bigger than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Wichita runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 47,545 students. Southeast High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Southeast High logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 28% Black, 17% White, 15% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 17% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 123 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Southeast High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at Southeast High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southeast High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.2%; this one delivers 10.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Sedgwick County put median household earnings sit near $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Southeast High is one campus in the mix.

Christa McAuliffe Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Southeast High. On composite proficiency, Southeast High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southeast High has climbed 11%, going from 1,853 students in 2018 to 2,066 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 26% to 32%.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Southeast High community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.