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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% in 2019 (Bottom 6% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 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.
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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% |