CREST RIDGE HIGH

CREST RIDGE HIGH is one of the small high schools in CENTERVIEW, Missouri, run under JOHNSON CO. R-VII, with 292 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so CREST RIDGE HIGH sits 42% smaller than that benchmark.

Within JOHNSON CO. R-VII, which oversees 2 schools and 568 students, CREST RIDGE HIGH is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, CREST RIDGE HIGH reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CREST RIDGE HIGH has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CREST RIDGE HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 42.4%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Johnson County shows median household income runs about $67,272, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Johnson County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,058 students), of which CREST RIDGE HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is CREST RIDGE ELEM., roughly 0.2 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CREST RIDGE HIGH at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 12%: 260 students in 2018 compared to 292 in 2025.

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