SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE

SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in HERCULANEUM, Missouri, run under DUNKLIN R-V, with 347 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 25% below the state mean of about 461.

DUNKLIN R-V runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,697 students. SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE shows that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Jefferson County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household earnings sit near $82,851, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), of which SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: TAYLOR EARLY CHILDHOOD, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, SENN-THOMAS MIDDLE comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 345 students in 2018 compared to 347 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.