54th
Silver Lake, KS 66539

Silver Lake is a phenomenal school district. We moved to Silver Lake specifically for the school system, and it has certainly lived up to our expectations. The teachers and staff are great, and the community is supportive and welcoming. My family highly recommends Silver Lake as a community and as a school.

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.