TRI-COUNTY HIGH

Set in JAMESPORT, Missouri, TRI-COUNTY HIGH is a micro-enrollment secondary school, one of the schools within TRI-COUNTY R-VII. It caters to 83 students across grades 5 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 83% smaller than typical.

TRI-COUNTY R-VII comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 168 students; TRI-COUNTY HIGH is among them.

In terms of who attends, TRI-COUNTY HIGH reports that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Daviess County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, TRI-COUNTY HIGH records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting TRI-COUNTY HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TRI-COUNTY HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 38.8%.

In the surrounding community, Daviess County reports that median household income runs about $63,984, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. TRI-COUNTY HIGH is one of 11 public schools in Daviess County (combined enrollment of about 1,078 students).

Nearest neighbor: TRI-COUNTY ELEM., around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, TRI-COUNTY HIGH comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 88 students in 2018 compared to 83 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 91% to 98%. Class-load math has fell: from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 5.7:1 in 2025.

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