ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH

ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH is a secondary school of small scale in IRONTON, Missouri, overseen by ARCADIA VALLEY R-II, enrolling 306 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 39% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

ARCADIA VALLEY R-II comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 974 students; ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Iron County's rate of about 75%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.8%; ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH posts 18.4%, -32.5 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Iron County) reports that median household income runs about $48,850, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Iron County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,669 students), of which ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH is one.

ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH. On composite proficiency, ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 329 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 0% to 5% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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