AVA HIGH

Set in AVA, Missouri, AVA HIGH is a small high school, one of the schools within AVA R-I. It caters to 391 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 501.

Within AVA R-I, which oversees 3 schools and 1,330 students, AVA HIGH is one campus in the system.

On demographics, AVA HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at AVA HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Douglas County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AVA HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of +9.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Douglas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $45,985 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Douglas County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,511 students), of which AVA HIGH is one.

AVA 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 AVA HIGH. On composite proficiency, AVA HIGH comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at AVA HIGH has decreased 11%, going from 437 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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