NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 68 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH
NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH, a tiny high school in HOPKINS, Missouri, part of NORTH NODAWAY CO. R-VI, enrolls 100 students, covering grades 6 through 12. That puts it 80% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.
NORTH NODAWAY CO. R-VI comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 186 students; NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH is among them.
In terms of who attends, NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH logs that nearly all students (96%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 2% multiracial. Compared to Nodaway County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Nodaway County (around 39%), the school's rate is north of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.3%; actual is 25.9%, a gap of -24.4 points.
Across the wider county, Nodaway County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,315, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH is one of 17 public schools in Nodaway County (combined enrollment of about 2,410 students).
The closest other public school is NORTH NODAWAY ELEM., roughly 7.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 65.4%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 117 students in 2018 compared to 100 in 2025.
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