ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH

Located at 4303 S PROVIDENCE RD, in COLUMBIA, Missouri, ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH is a heavily attended four-year high school that caters to 1,997 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by COLUMBIA 93. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH sits 299% bigger than that benchmark.

ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH is one of 34 schools operated by COLUMBIA 93, a district that educates 18,640 students overall.

On demographics, ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH reports that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 11% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% Asian, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH has 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Boone County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 56.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Boone County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,758 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Boone County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 65.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH has held roughly steady, going from 1,964 students in 2018 to 1,997 in 2025.

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