JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL

JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of compact scale in FESTUS, Missouri, one of the schools within JEFFERSON CO. R-VII, instructing 300 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 501.

Within JEFFERSON CO. R-VII, which oversees 5 schools and 1,036 students, JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, 2% Black. Compared to Jefferson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 48.0%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE, around 0.4 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 57.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 288 students in 2018 compared to 300 in 2025.

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