NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH.

NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. is a 6-8 campus of medium-sized scale in HOUSE SPRINGS, Missouri, part of NORTHWEST R-I, hosting 686 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 461 students per school, that is 49% larger than typical.

NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. is one of 10 schools operated by NORTHWEST R-I, a district that works with 5,815 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 46% of students at NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Jefferson County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.4%; actual is 20.7%, a gap of -29.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,851, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), of which NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. is one.

The closest other public school is HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM., roughly 0.2 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 52.5%.

NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH.'s enrollment has edged down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 835 (now 686). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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