CENTRAL HIGH

CENTRAL HIGH is a high school of expansive scale in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, one of the schools within SPRINGFIELD R-XII, teacheing 1,428 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 185% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 24,450 students; CENTRAL HIGH is among them.

Demographically, CENTRAL HIGH lists that White students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Greene County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 123 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CENTRAL HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Greene County) shows that median household income runs about $61,479, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Greene County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), CENTRAL HIGH is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PIPKIN MIDDLE, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTRAL HIGH. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CENTRAL HIGH ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTRAL HIGH has shrank 17%, going from 1,726 students in 2018 to 1,428 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 63% across the same window.

On allk12, the feed for CENTRAL HIGH typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.