High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Washburn Rural High, Topeka, KS

Washburn Rural High is a public high school in Topeka, part of Auburn-Washburn School District. It enrolled 1,878 students in 2024-25, with 14.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 1,878
Teachers (FTE): 133.0
Students per teacher: 14.1
Grades: 9 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.3 higher than the district figure of 12.8. The Kansas average across schools is 13.8. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.1

District12.8

Kansas13.8

United States15.3

School details

Address: 5900 SW 61st, Topeka, KS 66619
Phone: (785)339-4100
District: Auburn-Washburn School District
County: Shawnee County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID: 200320001073

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 470
Reduced-price lunch: 103
Free or reduced-price lunch: 57330.5% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

High schools elsewhere in Topeka

Topeka High Topeka Public Schools
Seaman High Seaman School District
Topeka West High Topeka Public Schools
Highland Park High Topeka Public Schools
Lawrence Gardner High School Department of Corrections
Hope Street Charter Academy Topeka Public Schools
Avondale Academy Topeka Public Schools
Capital City Topeka Public Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.