MARIONVILLE HIGH

MARIONVILLE HIGH operates as a cozy secondary school in MARIONVILLE, Missouri, one of the schools within MARIONVILLE R-IX. Current enrollment sits at 208 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 58% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

Across the 3 schools in MARIONVILLE R-IX (735 students total), MARIONVILLE HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MARIONVILLE HIGH records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, MARIONVILLE HIGH logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Lawrence County's rate of about 55%.

After controlling for student poverty, MARIONVILLE HIGH falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.4%; this one comes in at 27.1%, -23.3 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Lawrence County shows median household income runs about $61,215, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Lawrence County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,271 students), of which MARIONVILLE HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is MARIONVILLE ELEM, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MARIONVILLE HIGH. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARIONVILLE HIGH ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. MARIONVILLE HIGH's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 221 (now 208). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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