LICKING HIGH

LICKING HIGH is one of the small 9-12 campuss in LICKING, Missouri, operated by LICKING R-VIII, with 397 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

LICKING HIGH is one of 2 schools operated by LICKING R-VIII, a district that works with 813 students overall.

In terms of who attends, LICKING HIGH lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school logs 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Texas County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, LICKING HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 38.4%.

In the broader community, Texas County reports that median household earnings sit near $50,036, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Texas County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,571 students), of which LICKING HIGH is one.

LICKING ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LICKING HIGH at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LICKING HIGH's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 420 (now 397). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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