SOUTH SHELBY HIGH

Set in SHELBINA, Missouri, SOUTH SHELBY HIGH is a tight-knit four-year high school, operated by SHELBY CO. R-IV. It teaches 227 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so SOUTH SHELBY HIGH sits 55% smaller than that benchmark.

SHELBY CO. R-IV runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 635 students. SOUTH SHELBY HIGH is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUTH SHELBY HIGH shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder breaks down as 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Shelby County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, SOUTH SHELBY HIGH shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH SHELBY HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Across the wider county, Shelby County reports that the typical household earns roughly $51,594 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. SOUTH SHELBY HIGH is one of 5 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 931 students).

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH SHELBY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SOUTH SHELBY HIGH. On composite proficiency, SOUTH SHELBY HIGH comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

SOUTH SHELBY HIGH operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH SHELBY HIGH has stayed largely flat, going from 229 students in 2018 to 227 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 98% to 91%.

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