LAKELAND HIGH

Located at 12530 LAKELAND SCHOOL DR, in DEEPWATER, Missouri, LAKELAND HIGH is an one-room-style senior high that educates 180 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within LAKELAND R-III. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so LAKELAND HIGH sits 64% below that benchmark.

LAKELAND R-III runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 475 students. LAKELAND HIGH is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, LAKELAND HIGH logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. Compared to St. Clair County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, LAKELAND HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 30.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for St. Clair County put median household income runs about $53,043, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Clair County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,338 students), of which LAKELAND HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAKELAND ELEM., around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, LAKELAND HIGH comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

LAKELAND HIGH operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 184 students in 2018 compared to 180 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 96% to 91%.

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