SEYMOUR HIGH

As an intimate high school in SEYMOUR, Missouri, SEYMOUR HIGH instructs 226 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within SEYMOUR R-II. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 501.

SEYMOUR R-II comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 696 students; SEYMOUR HIGH is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SEYMOUR HIGH lists that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder comes out to 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Webster County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Webster County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SEYMOUR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of -11.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Webster County) records that median household earnings sit near $71,155, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Webster County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,210 students), of which SEYMOUR HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is SEYMOUR MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SEYMOUR HIGH comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

SEYMOUR HIGH operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 206 students in 2018 compared to 226 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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