CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH

CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH is one of the small 9-12 campuss in CARROLLTON, Missouri, overseen by CARROLLTON R-VII, with 257 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH sits 49% below that benchmark.

CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH is one of 3 schools operated by CARROLLTON R-VII, a district that enrolls 839 students overall.

On the student-mix side, CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%); the rest reads as 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Carroll County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Carroll County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.6%; CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH posts 25.5%, -25.1 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Carroll County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,154 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Carroll County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,268 students), of which CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CARROLLTON SENIOR HIGH has rose 3%, going from 249 students in 2018 to 257 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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