LAFAYETTE CO. HIGH

Set in HIGGINSVILLE, Missouri, LAFAYETTE CO. HIGH is a cozy senior high, run under LAFAYETTE CO. C-1. It educates 298 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 41% leaner than typical.

LAFAYETTE CO. C-1 runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 961 students. LAFAYETTE CO. HIGH is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LAFAYETTE CO. HIGH logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest breaks down as 4% Black, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Lafayette County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 45% of students at LAFAYETTE CO. HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, LAFAYETTE CO. HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Lafayette County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,612 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lafayette County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,064 students), of which LAFAYETTE CO. HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAFAYETTE CO. MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAFAYETTE CO. HIGH ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.2%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 297 students in 2018 compared to 298 in 2025.

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