CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH

Located at 517 W YOAKUM AVE, in CHAFFEE, Missouri, CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH is a compact four-year high school that works with 269 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within CHAFFEE R-II. That puts it 46% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

CHAFFEE R-II runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 562 students. CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH is one of those campuses.

On demographics, CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 42.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,782 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Scott County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students), CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CHAFFEE ELEM., around 0.4 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 287 students in 2018 compared to 269 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.