CLEARWATER HIGH

CLEARWATER HIGH is a cozy 9-12 campus in PIEDMONT, Missouri, one of the schools within CLEARWATER R-I. The school educates 230 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 54% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

Within CLEARWATER R-I, which oversees 3 schools and 858 students, CLEARWATER HIGH is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CLEARWATER HIGH reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Wayne County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CLEARWATER HIGH has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting CLEARWATER HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at CLEARWATER HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, CLEARWATER HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.8%.

In the broader community, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $47,226 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Wayne County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,496 students), of which CLEARWATER HIGH is one.

CLEARWATER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CLEARWATER HIGH. On composite proficiency, CLEARWATER HIGH comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 282 students in 2018 compared to 230 in 2025.

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