NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH

NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH, a rural-scale junior high in DEARBORN, Missouri, one of the schools within NORTH PLATTE CO. R-I, serves 123 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 73% below the state mean of about 461.

Across the 4 schools in NORTH PLATTE CO. R-I (556 students total), NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH PLATTE JR. 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 52.5%, a residual of +1.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Platte County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $96,227 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Platte County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,612 students), of which NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH is one.

NORTH PLATTE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. NORTH PLATTE JR. HIGH's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 144 (now 123). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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