Summary:
The Kismet-Plains district in Kansas has only one high school, Southwestern Heights Junior/Senior High, which serves students in grades 7-12. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom 10-15% of Kansas high schools over the past three years, with low proficiency rates on state assessments that have shown little improvement.
Southwestern Heights Junior/Senior High has a high percentage of students (75.4%) eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a significant level of economic disadvantage among the student population. The school's 4-year graduation rate of 89.5% is slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate of 1.3% is relatively low. However, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 19.5% is significantly higher than the state average, which may be contributing to its overall low academic performance.
With a student-teacher ratio of 12.1 to 1, slightly higher than the state average, the school may face challenges in providing individualized attention and support to its students. The combination of low academic achievement, high economic disadvantage, and high chronic absenteeism suggests that Southwestern Heights Junior/Senior High is in need of targeted interventions and additional resources to improve the educational outcomes for its students.
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