Silver Lake Jr-Sr High School

Silver Lake, KS 66539

Phone: (785) 582-4639
District: Silver Lake School District

9

GreatSchools Rating

public • Grades 7-12 & ungraded • 355 students

Silver Lake Jr-Sr High School serves grades 7-12 & ungraded in the Silver Lake School District. It is among the few public schools in Kansas to receive a distinguished GreatSchools Rating of 9 out of 10.

Silver Lake Jr-Sr High School is a public school located in Silver Lake, KS. 355 students attend Silver Lake Jr-Sr High School.

School Ratings

Category Rating Details
Test Scores 9/10 The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 Kansas State Assessments data from Kansas State Department of Education.
College Readiness 3/10 The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2024 Average ACT score data from Kansas State Department of Education, using 2025 4-year high school graduation rate data from Kansas State Department of Education, and using 2023 demographic data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Academic Progress 8/10 The Academic Progress Rating is a growth proxy rating based on a model using unmatched cohorts, or school-level data instead of student-level data. The Academic Progress Rating was created using 2024 and 2025 Kansas State Assessments data from Kansas State Department of Education, and using 2024 demographic data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Disappointed by Lack of Support and Persistent Racism.

My experience at Silver Lake Jr./Sr. High School as a POC (Person of color). It was very frustrating, mainly due to ongoing issues with racism and a lack of support from staff and administration. Despite attempts to start a diversity group with the principal’s involvement, the initiative had barely progressed and felt more like lip service than genuine change. Racism was a real problem in the school environment. I often felt like I had to take on the role of standing up against racist language and behavior, including hearing racial slurs like the N-word frequently between 7th and 8th grade, because I was so one-sided about it, without adequate intervention from staff. It was just exhausting. I recently transferred from Silver Lake to Topeka High as of writing this. Now, I had already lived in Topeka with my parents for many years before they decided to send me to an out-of-district school, and years passed from elementary to now high school (Freshman), and I decided to finally to just go to a 501 school since I already live in Topeka. I had been thinking about this for years, but only now have I decided I needed to start fresh. I would just not recommend this place if you're a person of color or different race than Caucasian. It was just an overall unwelcoming environment to be in. And special education wasn't really all to good either.

Posted: January 13, 2017

Both of my children have attended SLHS. Great Academics and Athletics!!

Posted: March 8, 2008

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