MANSFIELD HIGH
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BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MANSFIELD HIGH
MANSFIELD HIGH, a tiny high school in MANSFIELD, Missouri, part of MANSFIELD R-IV, caters to 174 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.
MANSFIELD R-IV comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 621 students; MANSFIELD HIGH is among them.
On the student-mix side, MANSFIELD HIGH records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting MANSFIELD HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MANSFIELD HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -10.8 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Wright County shows median household earnings sit near $47,909, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Wright County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,155 students), MANSFIELD HIGH is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: MANSFIELD JR. HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MANSFIELD HIGH. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MANSFIELD HIGH ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.9%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. MANSFIELD HIGH's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 209 (now 174). Class-load math has tightened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.
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