GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH

GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH is one of the mid-sized secondary schools in ST. LOUIS, Missouri, overseen by GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD/ST LOUIS, with 461 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Across the 4 schools in GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD/ST LOUIS (1,666 students total), GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 24% Black, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below St. Louis city's rate of about 92%.

After controlling for student poverty, GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Louis city) reports that median household earnings sit near $56,160, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH is one campus in the mix.

GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH's enrollment has ticked up 82% since 2018, when it stood at 253 (now 461). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 68% to 50%. Class-load math has rose: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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