COUCH HIGH

Set in MYRTLE, Missouri, COUCH HIGH is a minimally staffed 9-12 campus, operated by COUCH R-I. It serves 92 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 82% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

COUCH HIGH is one of 2 schools operated by COUCH R-I, a district that works with 186 students overall.

Demographically, COUCH HIGH records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest comes out to 3% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Oregon County as a whole.

On the resource side, COUCH HIGH shows 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COUCH HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Oregon County indicate median household earnings sit near $43,069, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. In all, Oregon County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,750 students), of which COUCH HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: COUCH ELEM., around 0.0 miles off. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COUCH HIGH ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. COUCH HIGH's enrollment has fell 21% since 2018, when it stood at 117 (now 92).

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