PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH

Set in PRINCETON, Missouri, PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH is a minimally staffed senior high, run under PRINCETON R-V. It caters to 151 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 70% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

Across the 2 schools in PRINCETON R-V (326 students total), PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%).

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Mercer County (around 42%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Mercer County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,679, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH is one of 4 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 468 students).

PRINCETON R-V ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH's enrollment has ticked down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 198 (now 151). Class-load math has fell: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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