DREXEL HIGH

DREXEL HIGH, a micro-enrollment four-year high school in DREXEL, Missouri, one of the schools within DREXEL R-IV, caters to 134 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 73% smaller than typical.

DREXEL HIGH is one of 2 schools operated by DREXEL R-IV, a district that enrolls 259 students overall.

Demographically, DREXEL HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, DREXEL HIGH has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting DREXEL HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at DREXEL HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DREXEL HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Around the school, Cass County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,535 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. DREXEL HIGH is one of 44 public schools in Cass County (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students).

DREXEL ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, DREXEL HIGH comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 154 students in 2018 compared to 134 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 97% to 89% across the same window.

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