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PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH
PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH operates as a high-enrollment high school in MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Missouri, one of the schools within PATTONVILLE R-III. Current enrollment sits at 1,945 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 288% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.
PATTONVILLE R-III comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 6,201 students; PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH is among them.
On the student-mix side, PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH lists that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% Black, 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 127 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PATTONVILLE SR. 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 50.5%; this one delivers 93.1%, a residual of +42.7 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Louis County put the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ROSE ACRES ELEM., around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 49.1%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PATTONVILLE SR. HIGH has climbed 13%, going from 1,720 students in 2018 to 1,945 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 37% across the same window.
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