NIXA JUNIOR HIGH

NIXA JUNIOR HIGH is one of the sprawling intermediate schools in NIXA, Missouri, one of the schools within Nixa Public Schools, with 1,033 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so NIXA JUNIOR HIGH sits 124% bigger than that benchmark.

Nixa Public Schools runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 6,792 students. NIXA JUNIOR HIGH is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, NIXA JUNIOR HIGH lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Christian County's rate of about 33%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NIXA JUNIOR HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Christian County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,437, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Christian County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,175 students), of which NIXA JUNIOR HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is JOHN THOMAS SCHOOL OF DISCOVER, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NIXA JUNIOR HIGH comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. NIXA JUNIOR HIGH's enrollment has increased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 968 (now 1,033). White enrollment moved from 88% to 84% across the same window.

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