BISSELL HALL

BISSELL HALL operates as a rural-scale secondary school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, operated by DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICE. Current enrollment sits at 22 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 96% below typical.

DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICE comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 496 students; BISSELL HALL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BISSELL HALL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 36% White. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, census data for St. Louis County shows median household earnings sit near $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which BISSELL HALL is one.

LEWIS AND CLARK HALL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. BISSELL HALL's enrollment has grew 47% since 2018, when it stood at 15 (now 22). The White share of enrollment climbed from 20% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 5.0:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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