BOWLING GREEN HIGH

BOWLING GREEN HIGH is one of the cozy high schools in BOWLING GREEN, Missouri, part of BOWLING GREEN R-I, with 373 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so BOWLING GREEN HIGH sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

BOWLING GREEN R-I comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,243 students; BOWLING GREEN HIGH is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BOWLING GREEN HIGH logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Pike County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, BOWLING GREEN HIGH records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pike County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BOWLING GREEN HIGH falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.6%; this one comes in at 14.4%, -36.2 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Pike County reports that median household income runs about $54,989, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Pike County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,424 students), BOWLING GREEN HIGH is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BOWLING GREEN MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BOWLING GREEN HIGH comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 382 students in 2018 compared to 373 in 2025.

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