MARQUETTE SR. HIGH

Set in CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, MARQUETTE SR. HIGH is a roomy senior high, run under ROCKWOOD R-VI. It teaches 2,095 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so MARQUETTE SR. HIGH sits 318% above that benchmark.

Across the 30 schools in ROCKWOOD R-VI (19,597 students total), MARQUETTE SR. HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MARQUETTE SR. HIGH lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Asian, 9% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MARQUETTE SR. HIGH has 131 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, MARQUETTE SR. HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MARQUETTE SR. HIGH is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

Nearest neighbor: KEHRS MILL ELEM., around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARQUETTE SR. HIGH ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. MARQUETTE SR. HIGH's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 2,277 (now 2,095). White enrollment moved from 71% to 63% across the same window.

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