REEDS SPRING HIGH

As a medium-sized senior high in REEDS SPRING, Missouri, REEDS SPRING HIGH hosts 560 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by REEDS SPRING R-IV.

Across the 5 schools in REEDS SPRING R-IV (1,718 students total), REEDS SPRING HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, REEDS SPRING HIGH logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, REEDS SPRING HIGH has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Stone County's rate of about 65%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), REEDS SPRING HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of -17.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Stone County put the typical household earns roughly $63,520 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Stone County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,406 students), of which REEDS SPRING HIGH is one.

REEDS SPRING MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around REEDS SPRING HIGH. On composite proficiency, REEDS SPRING HIGH comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at REEDS SPRING HIGH has decreased 7%, going from 604 students in 2018 to 560 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 95% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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