WINSTON HIGH

WINSTON HIGH is an one-room-style high school in WINSTON, Missouri, run under WINSTON R-VI. The school hosts 54 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so WINSTON HIGH sits 89% below that benchmark.

WINSTON R-VI comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 118 students; WINSTON HIGH is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WINSTON HIGH shows that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the resource side, WINSTON HIGH reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 5.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting WINSTON HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Daviess County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WINSTON HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.8%.

Zooming out to the county, Daviess County reports that median household income runs about $63,984, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WINSTON HIGH is one of 11 public schools in Daviess County (combined enrollment of about 1,078 students).

Nearest neighbor: WINSTON ELEM., around 0.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, WINSTON HIGH comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 41%: 91 students in 2018 compared to 54 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 5.5:1 in 2025.

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