KNOB NOSTER HIGH

KNOB NOSTER HIGH is a moderately sized senior high in KNOB NOSTER, Missouri, overseen by KNOB NOSTER R-VIII. The school works with 474 students in grades 9 through 12.

KNOB NOSTER R-VIII runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,007 students. KNOB NOSTER HIGH is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KNOB NOSTER HIGH reports that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 4% Pacific Islander.

In terms of school funding signals, KNOB NOSTER HIGH shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Johnson County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KNOB NOSTER HIGH falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.7%; this one comes in at 13.6%, -37.1 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Johnson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,272 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Johnson County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,058 students), of which KNOB NOSTER HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: KNOB NOSTER MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around KNOB NOSTER HIGH. On composite proficiency, KNOB NOSTER HIGH comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. KNOB NOSTER HIGH's enrollment has ticked up 34% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 474). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 9% to 4% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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