PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH

PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH is one of the heavily attended four-year high schools in RIVERSIDE, Missouri, part of PARK HILL, with 1,890 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH sits 277% bigger than that benchmark.

PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH is one of 18 schools operated by PARK HILL, a district that caters to 11,937 students overall.

Demographically, PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH logs 112 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 87.6%, a residual of +36.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Platte County indicate the typical household earns roughly $96,227 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Platte County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,612 students), of which PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH is one.

WALDEN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH has grew 15%, going from 1,638 students in 2018 to 1,890 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 76% to 66%.

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