CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS

CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS is a four-year high school of modestly sized scale in CONWAY, Missouri, operated by LACLEDE CO. R-I, enrolling 329 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

LACLEDE CO. R-I runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 751 students. CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 55% of students at CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Laclede County's rate of about 64%.

With demographic context factored in, CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Across the wider county, Laclede County reports that the typical household earns roughly $53,282 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Laclede County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,763 students), CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: EZARD ELEM., around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 381 (now 329).

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