OWENSVILLE HIGH

As a mid-tier high school in OWENSVILLE, Missouri, OWENSVILLE HIGH teaches 541 students from grades 9 through 12, part of GASCONADE CO. R-II.

Within GASCONADE CO. R-II, which oversees 4 schools and 1,771 students, OWENSVILLE HIGH is one campus in the system.

On demographics, OWENSVILLE HIGH shows that nearly all students (92%) are White. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, OWENSVILLE HIGH has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, OWENSVILLE HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of -10.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Gasconade County indicate median household income runs about $64,232, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Gasconade County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,494 students), OWENSVILLE HIGH is one campus in the mix.

OWENSVILLE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OWENSVILLE HIGH at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 36.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 569 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025.

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