PILOT GROVE HIGH

PILOT GROVE HIGH, an one-room-style four-year high school in PILOT GROVE, Missouri, operated by PILOT GROVE C-4, works with 128 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so PILOT GROVE HIGH sits 74% smaller than that benchmark.

PILOT GROVE C-4 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 200 students. PILOT GROVE HIGH is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PILOT GROVE HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). The remainder breaks down as 2% multiracial. By comparison, Cooper County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, PILOT GROVE HIGH shows 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting PILOT GROVE HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cooper County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cooper County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,625 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cooper County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,425 students), PILOT GROVE HIGH is one campus in the mix.

PILOT GROVE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

PILOT GROVE HIGH operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PILOT GROVE HIGH has fell 4%, going from 134 students in 2018 to 128 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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