HOUSTON HIGH

HOUSTON HIGH operates as a compact secondary school in HOUSTON, Missouri, part of HOUSTON R-I. Current enrollment sits at 359 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 28% leaner than typical.

HOUSTON R-I comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,040 students; HOUSTON HIGH is among them.

Looking at the student body, HOUSTON HIGH shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Texas County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at HOUSTON HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Texas County (around 89%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HOUSTON HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of +14.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Texas County put the typical household earns roughly $50,036 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HOUSTON HIGH is one of 16 public schools in Texas County (combined enrollment of about 3,571 students).

HOUSTON MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HOUSTON HIGH comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 340 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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