VIENNA HIGH
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 29 points, placing it in Missouri's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About VIENNA HIGH
Located at 300 FOURTH STREET, in VIENNA, Missouri, VIENNA HIGH is an one-room-style senior high that caters to 136 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by MARIES CO. R-I. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so VIENNA HIGH sits 73% below that benchmark.
MARIES CO. R-I runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 440 students. VIENNA HIGH is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, VIENNA HIGH logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Maries County as a whole.
On the resource side, The school employs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, VIENNA HIGH is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 79.8%, a residual of +29.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Maries County indicate median household income runs about $59,455, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Maries County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 927 students), of which VIENNA HIGH is one.
The closest other public school is VIENNA MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VIENNA HIGH at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 44.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VIENNA HIGH has declined 40%, going from 225 students in 2018 to 136 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 99% to 93%.
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