HILLSBORO JR. HIGH

Located at 12 HAWK DR, in HILLSBORO, Missouri, HILLSBORO JR. HIGH is a reasonably sized intermediate school that teaches 492 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within HILLSBORO R-III.

HILLSBORO JR. HIGH is one of 6 schools operated by HILLSBORO R-III, a district that educates 3,117 students overall.

In terms of who attends, HILLSBORO JR. HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school records 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Jefferson County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, HILLSBORO JR. HIGH shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HILLSBORO JR. HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,851, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Jefferson County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), of which HILLSBORO JR. HIGH is one.

HILLSBORO ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HILLSBORO JR. HIGH ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 41.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. HILLSBORO JR. HIGH's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 535 (now 492).

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