NORTH PLATTE HIGH

NORTH PLATTE HIGH is a high school of compact scale in DEARBORN, Missouri, run under NORTH PLATTE CO. R-I, hosting 220 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% leaner than the state mean of about 501.

NORTH PLATTE CO. R-I comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 556 students; NORTH PLATTE HIGH is among them.

Looking at the student body, NORTH PLATTE HIGH lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, NORTH PLATTE HIGH has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH PLATTE HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of +5.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Platte County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $96,227 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. NORTH PLATTE HIGH is one of 37 public schools in Platte County (combined enrollment of about 17,612 students).

The closest other public school is NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH, roughly 0.0 miles away. 6 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 PLATTE HIGH ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 42%: 155 students in 2018 compared to 220 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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