MCCLUER HIGH

MCCLUER HIGH is a secondary school of heavily attended scale in FLORISSANT, Missouri, overseen by FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II, serveing 1,075 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so MCCLUER HIGH sits 115% bigger than that benchmark.

MCCLUER HIGH is one of 23 schools operated by FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II, a district that serves 8,809 students overall.

Looking at the student body, MCCLUER HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%); the rest is composed of 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MCCLUER 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 54.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household income runs about $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), MCCLUER HIGH is one campus in the mix.

WALNUT GROVE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MCCLUER HIGH. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MCCLUER HIGH ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. MCCLUER HIGH's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 1,082 (now 1,075). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 2% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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