MARSHFIELD HIGH

MARSHFIELD HIGH is one of the heavily attended secondary schools in MARSHFIELD, Missouri, one of the schools within MARSHFIELD R-I, with 865 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 73% larger than typical.

MARSHFIELD R-I comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,045 students; MARSHFIELD HIGH is among them.

In terms of who attends, MARSHFIELD HIGH records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, MARSHFIELD HIGH logs 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at MARSHFIELD HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Webster County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARSHFIELD HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 56.6%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Around the school, Webster County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,155 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Webster County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,210 students), MARSHFIELD HIGH is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SHOOK ELEM., roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around MARSHFIELD HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARSHFIELD HIGH at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 56.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 947 students in 2018 compared to 865 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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