FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH

FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH, a high-enrollment high school in ST CHARLES, Missouri, part of FRANCIS HOWELL R-III, enrolls 1,843 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 268% larger than the state mean of about 501.

FRANCIS HOWELL R-III comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 17,047 students; FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH is among them.

Looking at the student body, FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 7% Black, 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 8% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Charles County (around 19%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 50.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for St. Charles County put median household income runs about $104,692, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH is one of 93 public schools in St. Charles County (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students).

Nearest neighbor: JOHN WELDON ELEM., around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH. On composite proficiency, FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 58.7%.

FRANCIS HOWELL HIGH operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,819 students in 2018 compared to 1,843 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 85% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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