PACIFIC HIGH

PACIFIC HIGH is one of the heavily attended secondary schools in PACIFIC, Missouri, operated by MERAMEC VALLEY R-III, with 973 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so PACIFIC HIGH sits 94% above that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in MERAMEC VALLEY R-III (3,131 students total), PACIFIC HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PACIFIC HIGH records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Franklin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting PACIFIC HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PACIFIC HIGH is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.5%; PACIFIC HIGH posts 27.6%, -22.9 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Franklin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,165 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PACIFIC HIGH is one of 41 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 15,025 students).

TRUMAN ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PACIFIC HIGH comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 8%: 898 students in 2018 compared to 973 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 93% to 89%.

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