TRUMAN HIGH

TRUMAN HIGH is a high-enrollment secondary school in INDEPENDENCE, Missouri, operated by INDEPENDENCE 30. The school enrolls 1,720 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so TRUMAN HIGH sits 243% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 29 schools in INDEPENDENCE 30 (14,272 students total), TRUMAN HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, TRUMAN HIGH reports that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 26% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 92 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TRUMAN HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 56.1%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Jackson County put the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), TRUMAN HIGH is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JOHN W. LUFF ELEM., roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TRUMAN HIGH ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 59.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. TRUMAN HIGH's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,644 (now 1,720). White enrollment moved from 58% to 45% across the same window.

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