Southeast High School

Size

Of the 6 high schools in Kansas City 33 School District, Southeast High School is the smallest, with 3.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 278; Southeast High School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 12 with 144 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 111, against an average of 125 per grade. This year grade 12 has 30% more students than grade 9 (144 against 111). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 81.3% here and 46.2% across Kansas City 33. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Kansas City 33 and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 47.8% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 32.42 full-time-equivalent teachers for 498 students, Southeast High School has 15.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 498 students would have about 40.8 teachers, so Southeast High School has 8.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

Location

Southeast High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Ewing Marion Kauffman High School, 1.2 miles away in Ewing Marion Kauffman School. Within 10 miles there are 27 other high schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.