MILLER HIGH

MILLER HIGH is one of the low-enrollment senior highs in MILLER, Missouri, operated by MILLER R-II, with 270 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 46% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

MILLER R-II runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 580 students. MILLER HIGH is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MILLER HIGH shows that nearly all students (91%) are White. Compared to Lawrence County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, MILLER HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 58.4%, a residual of +8.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lawrence County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,215 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. MILLER HIGH is one of 24 public schools in Lawrence County (combined enrollment of about 7,271 students).

The closest other public school is CENTRAL ELEM., roughly 0.5 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, MILLER HIGH comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

MILLER HIGH operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MILLER HIGH has shrank 3%, going from 279 students in 2018 to 270 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 96% to 91% over that span.

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