SOUTH IRON HIGH

SOUTH IRON HIGH is a secondary school of one-room-style scale in ANNAPOLIS, Missouri, operated by SOUTH IRON CO. R-I, works with 145 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so SOUTH IRON HIGH sits 71% below that benchmark.

SOUTH IRON CO. R-I comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 284 students; SOUTH IRON HIGH is among them.

On demographics, SOUTH IRON HIGH logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Other groups include 8% Black, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Iron County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTH IRON HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 45.4%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Iron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $48,850 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Iron County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,669 students), of which SOUTH IRON HIGH is one.

SOUTH IRON ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH IRON HIGH at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH IRON HIGH has edged up 28%, going from 113 students in 2018 to 145 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 89% to 84%. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.6:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.