WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH

WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH operates as a cozy high school in WILLOW SPRINGS, Missouri, part of WILLOW SPRINGS R-IV. Current enrollment sits at 370 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

WILLOW SPRINGS R-IV comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,171 students; WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH is among them.

On demographics, WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH shows that nearly all students (92%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.3%; this one comes in at 23.5%, -26.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Howell County indicate median household earnings sit near $50,993, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Howell County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,704 students), WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH is one campus in the mix.

WILLOW SPRINGS ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLOW SPRINGS HIGH has ticked down 12%, going from 422 students in 2018 to 370 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.