ADVANCE HIGH

Located at 201 SCHOOL STREET, in ADVANCE, Missouri, ADVANCE HIGH is a rural-scale high school that enrolls 188 students (grades 7 through 12), part of ADVANCE R-IV. Enrollment runs roughly 62% smaller than the state mean of about 501.

Within ADVANCE R-IV, which oversees 2 schools and 428 students, ADVANCE HIGH is one campus in the system.

Demographically, ADVANCE HIGH shows that nearly all students (98%) are White.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Stoddard County's rate of about 53%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ADVANCE HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 57.3%, a residual of +6.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Stoddard County shows median household earnings sit near $57,957, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Stoddard County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,712 students), of which ADVANCE HIGH is one.

ADVANCE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ADVANCE HIGH ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 50.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ADVANCE HIGH has declined 6%, going from 201 students in 2018 to 188 in 2025.

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