SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH

SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in SIKESTON, Missouri, one of the schools within SCOTT CO. CENTRAL. Current enrollment sits at 108 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH sits 78% smaller than that benchmark.

SCOTT CO. CENTRAL runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 302 students. SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Black, 15% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Scott County (around 78%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Scott County shows median household earnings sit near $62,782, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students), of which SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH is one.

SCOTT CO. CENTRAL ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. SCOTT CO. CENTRAL HIGH's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 125 (now 108). The White share of enrollment fell from 75% to 62% over that span.

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