SCOTT CITY HIGH

Set in SCOTT CITY, Missouri, SCOTT CITY HIGH is a close-knit four-year high school, part of SCOTT CITY R-I. It hosts 268 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

SCOTT CITY HIGH is one of 3 schools operated by SCOTT CITY R-I, a district that serves 773 students overall.

On the student-mix side, SCOTT CITY HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest looks like 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SCOTT CITY HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -7.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Scott County reports that median household income runs about $62,782, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Scott County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students), of which SCOTT CITY HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is SCOTT CITY ELEM., roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SCOTT CITY HIGH comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCOTT CITY HIGH has ticked up 13%, going from 237 students in 2018 to 268 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 97% to 92%.

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