Kairos High

Kairos High is a secondary school of low-enrollment scale in ST. LOUIS, Missouri, part of KAIROS ACADEMIES, hosting 287 students in grades 9 through 11. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so Kairos High sits 43% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in KAIROS ACADEMIES (515 students total), Kairos High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Kairos High records that Black students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 12% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Kairos High shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Kairos High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of St. Louis city's rate of about 92%.

With demographic context factored in, Kairos High ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.1%; Kairos High posts 84.0%, +33.9 points above that line.

In the area at large, St. Louis city reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which Kairos High is one.

KAIROS ACADEMIES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 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 Kairos High at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 56.7%.

Kairos High operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, Kairos High runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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