Carl Junction Jr. High

Located at 206 S Roney, in Carl Junction, Missouri, Carl Junction Jr. High is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus that teaches 500 students (grades 7 through 8), run under CARL JUNCTION R-I.

Within CARL JUNCTION R-I, which oversees 6 schools and 3,331 students, Carl Junction Jr. High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Carl Junction Jr. High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder looks like 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Jasper County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jasper County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Carl Junction Jr. High ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.6%; Carl Junction Jr. High posts 74.5%, +23.8 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jasper County) records that median household income runs about $60,694, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Carl Junction Jr. High is one of 49 public schools in Jasper County (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students).

The closest other public school is Carl Junction High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carl Junction Jr. High at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 46.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carl Junction Jr. High has decreased 7%, going from 535 students in 2018 to 500 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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