EMINENCE HIGH

EMINENCE HIGH is one of the one-room-style four-year high schools in EMINENCE, Missouri, one of the schools within EMINENCE R-I, with 120 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 76% smaller than the state mean of about 501.

EMINENCE HIGH is one of 2 schools operated by EMINENCE R-I, a district that serves 259 students overall.

In terms of who attends, EMINENCE HIGH shows that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, EMINENCE HIGH has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Shannon County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EMINENCE HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 53.5%, a residual of +4.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Shannon County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $55,222 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. EMINENCE HIGH is one of 8 public schools in Shannon County (combined enrollment of about 1,687 students).

EMINENCE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, EMINENCE HIGH comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 122 students in 2018 compared to 120 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

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