Smithville High

Smithville High is one of the roomy secondary schools in SMITHVILLE, Missouri, one of the schools within SMITHVILLE R-II, with 845 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 69% bigger than the state mean of about 501.

SMITHVILLE R-II comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,514 students; Smithville High is among them.

Demographically, Smithville High reports that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the resource side, Smithville High records 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Smithville High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Clay County's rate of about 35%.

After controlling for student poverty, Smithville High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.0%; this one delivers 46.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Clay County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Smithville High is one of 80 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students).

Smithville Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Smithville High. On composite proficiency, Smithville High comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Smithville High has showed little movement, going from 865 students in 2018 to 845 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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