RUSSELLVILLE HIGH

RUSSELLVILLE HIGH is a compact secondary school in RUSSELLVILLE, Missouri, operated by COLE CO. R-I. The school instructs 285 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so RUSSELLVILLE HIGH sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in COLE CO. R-I (604 students total), RUSSELLVILLE HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, RUSSELLVILLE HIGH records that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. By comparison, Cole County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, RUSSELLVILLE HIGH lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 22% of students at RUSSELLVILLE HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cole County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, RUSSELLVILLE HIGH falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.9%; this one comes in at 30.8%, -20.1 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Cole County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,876 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. RUSSELLVILLE HIGH is one of 28 public schools in Cole County (combined enrollment of about 10,312 students).

Nearest neighbor: COLE CO. R-I ELEM., around 0.5 miles off. 4 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 RUSSELLVILLE HIGH at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 61%: 177 students in 2018 compared to 285 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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