HOLLISTER HIGH

HOLLISTER HIGH is one of the reasonably sized 9-12 campuss in HOLLISTER, Missouri, part of HOLLISTER R-V, with 475 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Within HOLLISTER R-V, which oversees 4 schools and 1,369 students, HOLLISTER HIGH is one campus in the system.

Demographically, HOLLISTER HIGH records that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 57% of students at HOLLISTER HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HOLLISTER HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of +4.0 points.

In the surrounding community, Taney County reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,497 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Taney County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,946 students), of which HOLLISTER HIGH is one.

HOLLISTER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HOLLISTER HIGH at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

HOLLISTER HIGH operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOLLISTER HIGH has contracted 3%, going from 489 students in 2018 to 475 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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