KHS School Profile

2025-2026

Legacy Matters

The mission of Kokomo High School is to enable our students to become lifelong learners as the result of a safe and positive learning environment, where legacy matters. Each student is challenged in a culture of excellence and achievement, which enables students to develop thinking and learning skills to achieve personal growth and maximum potential.

School Profile

Multifaceted Community

Kokomo High School takes pride in its culturally-rich student population of close to 1,500 students, 35% of which are in racial minority groups, in grades 9-12. Approximately 55% of the students participate in the free/reduced lunch program. Each academic year, around 50 students from various corners of the globe choose to study at Kokomo High School. Since 2012, KHS has welcomed over 800 international students from over 50 countries. KHS students learn from each other while experiencing a rigorous and engaging curriculum through a variety of academic programs, as well as co-curricular and extra-curricular activities offered at Kokomo High School.

Curriculum

The school year consists of 180 days divided into two semesters. The school day has 7 periods each lasting 50 minutes. KHS students have an incredible number of challenging academic programs from which to choose. Kokomo High School is authorized as a World School in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program (MYP), IB Diploma Program (DP), and IB Career-Related Program (CP).

Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses are offered at the Kokomo Area Career Center, which is conveniently located within the campus of Kokomo High School.

Advanced Placement Offerings

Advanced Placement courses prepare students for AP exams, which can earn them college credit and/or exempt them from freshman-level college courses. AP courses are weighted, adding 1.0 to the grade earned on a 4.0 GPA scale. Last year, Kokomo High School administered 601 AP tests.

Grading Scale and Class rank

Kokomo High School determines GPA by dividing total points by the total number of credits attempted. Grades are weighted for AP and IB DP courses. During the 2022-2023 school year, KHS commenced weighting dual credit classes in core areas. Weighted grades add an additional 1.0 grade point to a 4-point scale. Kokomo High School does not rank students.

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93-100

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87-89

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67-69

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GPA Distribution for Class of 2025 (284 Students, Mean GPA=2.97)

Bar graph GPA distribution

Graduates - Class of 2025

Graduation Rate: 100%

(including certificates of completion: 99.65%)

  • Kokomo High School does not report discipline information to universities or provide ratings on school reports.

  • As many schools move toward test-optional or test-free admissions, KHS will not be providing historical data on SAT or ACT scores.

Diploma Requirements

IB Diploma Course Offerings

  • Personal & Prof. Skills

  • Biology SL & HL

  • Chemistry SL & HL*

  • Dance SL*

  • Environmental Systems & Societies SL

  • Film*

  • German ab initio SL*

  • History of Americas HL

  • Language & Lit. HL

  • Math App & Int SL*

  • Math Anyl & Appr SL

  • Music SL

  • Physics SL & HL*

  • Psychology SL & HL

  • Spanish SL & HL

  • Sports Ex. & Health Sci. SL

  • Theatre Arts SL*

  • Theory of Knowledge

  • Visual Arts SL & HL

  • World Religions SL*

The KHS Class of 2025 completed 601 AP exams in 20 subjects in 2024-2025; were awarded 5,392 dual credit hours through partnering universities: Ivy Tech Community College, Indiana University, Vincennes University, & Manchester University; AND earned more than $17 MILLION in scholarships!

Angela Blessing, Principal  

   Kokomo High School