HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL

HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school of very small scale in HIGBEE, Missouri, operated by HIGBEE R-VIII, instructing 50 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 89% below that benchmark.

Within HIGBEE R-VIII, which oversees 3 schools and 278 students, HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Randolph County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.1%; actual is 16.7%, a gap of -33.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Randolph County put median household earnings sit near $53,033, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Randolph County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,375 students), of which HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

HIGBEE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HIGBEE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 41.7%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

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