EXTERNAL SITES
TOWN AND COUNTRY · MO · SPECL. SCH. DST. ST. LOUIS CO. · Public · K-12 combined
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MAPLEWOOD-RICHMOND HGTS. HIGH → STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO → SUMNER HIGH → GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH → GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH → BEAUMONT CTE HIGH SCHOOL → MILLER CAREER ACADEMY → SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 33% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 26% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 30% (Bottom 6% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How EXTERNAL SITES compares for families
What families should know about EXTERNAL SITES.
- ▸ LocallyMO sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: MAPLEWOOD-RICHMOND HGTS. HIGH, STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO, SUMNER HIGH and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 26% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 6% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Missouri-Columbia
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $20,268/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +8.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,223 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAPLEWOOD-RICHMOND HGTS. HIGH MAPLEWOOD |
Public | 6.4 | 439 | +9.5% |
| STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO FERGUSON |
Public | 10.1 | 434 | +9.0% |
| SUMNER HIGH ST LOUIS |
Public | 11.1 | 407 | +85.0% |
| GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH ST. LOUIS |
Public · charter | 9.1 | 461 | +29.5% |
| GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY HIGH ST. LOUIS |
Public · charter | 11.4 | 402 | +0.2% |
| BEAUMONT CTE HIGH SCHOOL ST LOUIS |
Public | 12.0 | 415 | +129.3% |
| MILLER CAREER ACADEMY ST LOUIS |
Public | 11.5 | 430 | -24.3% |
| SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ST LOUIS |
Public | 9.2 | 337 | -34.7% |