HARTVILLE HIGH

HARTVILLE HIGH is a four-year high school of micro-enrollment scale in HARTVILLE, Missouri, run under HARTVILLE R-II, hosting 183 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 63% below the state mean of about 501.

HARTVILLE R-II runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 640 students. HARTVILLE HIGH is one of those campuses.

On demographics, HARTVILLE HIGH records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder reads as 2% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, HARTVILLE HIGH has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting HARTVILLE HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, HARTVILLE HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 51.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Wright County indicate median household income runs about $47,909, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Wright County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,155 students), HARTVILLE HIGH is one campus in the mix.

HARTVILLE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around HARTVILLE HIGH. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARTVILLE HIGH ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.9%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARTVILLE HIGH has fell 46%, going from 336 students in 2018 to 183 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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