LEBANON SR. HIGH

LEBANON SR. HIGH is a four-year high school of sprawling scale in LEBANON, Missouri, part of LEBANON R-III, works with 1,439 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 187% bigger than the state mean of about 501.

LEBANON R-III runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,410 students. LEBANON SR. HIGH is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, LEBANON SR. HIGH shows that nearly all students (87%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at LEBANON SR. HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Laclede County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LEBANON SR. HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.9%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Laclede County put the typical household earns roughly $53,282 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. LEBANON SR. HIGH is one of 12 public schools in Laclede County (combined enrollment of about 5,763 students).

JOE D. ESTHER ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around LEBANON SR. HIGH. On composite proficiency, LEBANON SR. HIGH comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEBANON SR. HIGH has held roughly steady, going from 1,406 students in 2018 to 1,439 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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