CRYSTAL CITY HIGH

CRYSTAL CITY HIGH operates as a small senior high in CRYSTAL CITY, Missouri, run under CRYSTAL CITY 47. Current enrollment sits at 238 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 52% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

Across the 2 schools in CRYSTAL CITY 47 (562 students total), CRYSTAL CITY HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, CRYSTAL CITY HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder consists of 5% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 47% of students at CRYSTAL CITY HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CRYSTAL CITY HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 55.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,851, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Jefferson County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), CRYSTAL CITY HIGH is one campus in the mix.

CRYSTAL CITY ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CRYSTAL CITY HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CRYSTAL CITY HIGH at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 55.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. CRYSTAL CITY HIGH's enrollment has climbed 42% since 2018, when it stood at 168 (now 238).

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.