ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH

ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH is one of the cozy intermediate schools in JENNINGS, Missouri, overseen by JENNINGS, with 310 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH sits 33% below that benchmark.

ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH is one of 7 schools operated by JENNINGS, a district that teaches 2,269 students overall.

On demographics, ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH records that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -12.9 points.

In the area at large, St. Louis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

JENNINGS HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

ROSE JOHNSON JENNINGS JR. HIGH operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 310 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 99% to 95% across the same window.

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