NORTH CO. SR. HIGH

As a sprawling four-year high school in BONNE TERRE, Missouri, NORTH CO. SR. HIGH teaches 785 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by NORTH ST. FRANCOIS CO. R-I. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so NORTH CO. SR. HIGH sits 57% larger than that benchmark.

NORTH ST. FRANCOIS CO. R-I runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,581 students. NORTH CO. SR. HIGH is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTH CO. SR. HIGH logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to St. Francois County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, NORTH CO. SR. HIGH logs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Francois County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH CO. SR. HIGH is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.4%; NORTH CO. SR. HIGH posts 28.9%, -21.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Francois County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,477, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, St. Francois County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,962 students), of which NORTH CO. SR. HIGH is one.

NORTH COUNTY PRIMARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTH CO. SR. HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTH CO. SR. HIGH at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 43.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. NORTH CO. SR. HIGH's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 956 (now 785). White enrollment moved from 97% to 90% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the NORTH CO. SR. HIGH community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.