PRAIRIE HOME HIGH

As a very small senior high in PRAIRIE HOME, Missouri, PRAIRIE HOME HIGH hosts 90 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within PRAIRIE HOME R-V. That puts it 82% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

Across the 2 schools in PRAIRIE HOME R-V (153 students total), PRAIRIE HOME HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PRAIRIE HOME HIGH records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at PRAIRIE HOME HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Cooper County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PRAIRIE HOME HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -8.7 points.

In the broader community, Cooper County reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,625 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Cooper County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,425 students), of which PRAIRIE HOME HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: PRAIRIE HOME ELEM., around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PRAIRIE HOME HIGH at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 54.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 15%: 78 students in 2018 compared to 90 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.