MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one of the sizable four-year high schools in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within MEHLVILLE R-IX, with 1,388 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 177% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 19 schools operated by MEHLVILLE R-IX, a district that serves 10,095 students overall.

Looking at the student body, MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 6% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +18.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for St. Louis County put median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one.

At Home Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL has decreased 11%, going from 1,563 students in 2018 to 1,388 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 77% to 68% over that span.

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