SOUTH HARRISON HIGH

SOUTH HARRISON HIGH is one of the small secondary schools in BETHANY, Missouri, one of the schools within SOUTH HARRISON CO. R-II, with 243 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 51% below the state mean of about 501.

SOUTH HARRISON CO. R-II comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 741 students; SOUTH HARRISON HIGH is among them.

On the student-mix side, SOUTH HARRISON HIGH reports that nearly all students (91%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, SOUTH HARRISON HIGH records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting SOUTH HARRISON HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 41% of students at SOUTH HARRISON HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harrison County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTH HARRISON HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 47.5%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Across the wider county, Harrison County reports that median household income runs about $54,367, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. SOUTH HARRISON HIGH is one of 13 public schools in Harrison County (combined enrollment of about 1,269 students).

SOUTH HARRISON MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SOUTH HARRISON HIGH. On composite proficiency, SOUTH HARRISON HIGH comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

SOUTH HARRISON HIGH operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 250 students in 2018 compared to 243 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 98% to 91%.

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