SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH

SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH is a compact 9-12 campus in MOKANE, Missouri, run under SOUTH CALLAWAY CO. R-II. The school serves 237 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 501 students.

SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH is one of 4 schools operated by SOUTH CALLAWAY CO. R-II, a district that hosts 759 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Callaway County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 67.9%, a residual of +17.2 points.

In the area at large, Callaway County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,176 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Callaway County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,396 students), SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH is one campus in the mix.

SOUTH CALLAWAY MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.8%.

SOUTH CALLAWAY HIGH operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 266 students in 2018 compared to 237 in 2025.

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