SUMNER HIGH

Set in ST LOUIS, Missouri, SUMNER HIGH is a close-knit secondary school, one of the schools within ST. LOUIS CITY. It teaches 407 students across grades 9 through 12.

Across the 62 schools in ST. LOUIS CITY (17,933 students total), SUMNER HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, SUMNER HIGH lists that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUMNER HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of +19.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for St. Louis city shows the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which SUMNER HIGH is one.

HICKEY ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUMNER HIGH ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. SUMNER HIGH's enrollment has expanded 50% since 2018, when it stood at 271 (now 407). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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