WHEATON HIGH

WHEATON HIGH operates as a tiny four-year high school in WHEATON, Missouri, part of WHEATON R-III. Current enrollment sits at 199 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so WHEATON HIGH sits 60% below that benchmark.

WHEATON HIGH is one of 2 schools operated by WHEATON R-III, a district that educates 440 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WHEATON HIGH logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 27% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 62% of students at WHEATON HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WHEATON HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Barry County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,346, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Barry County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,974 students), of which WHEATON HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: WHEATON ELEM., around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WHEATON HIGH at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 38%: 144 students in 2018 compared to 199 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 10% to 27% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.9:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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