RIDGEWAY HIGH
RIDGEWAY · MO · RIDGEWAY R-V · Public · K-12 combined
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NORTH HARRISON HIGH → NORTH CENTRAL CAREER CTR. → SOUTH HARRISON HIGH → CAINSVILLE HIGH → GILMAN CITY HIGH → PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH → ALBANY HIGH → PATTONSBURG HIGH →📋 At a glance
- 📚 5 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: 54th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 10% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How RIDGEWAY HIGH compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 54th percentile nationally with 5 AP courses.
- ▸ 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: NORTH HARRISON HIGH, NORTH CENTRAL CAREER CTR., SOUTH HARRISON HIGH and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
54th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 10% 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.
👩🏫 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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. 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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -13.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 31 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH HARRISON HIGH EAGLEVILLE |
Public | 7.1 | 59 | -1.7% |
| NORTH CENTRAL CAREER CTR. BETHANY |
Public | 7.7 | — | — |
| SOUTH HARRISON HIGH BETHANY |
Public | 7.8 | 243 | +0.0% |
| CAINSVILLE HIGH CAINSVILLE |
Public | 9.6 | 27 | — |
| GILMAN CITY HIGH GILMAN CITY |
Public | 17.0 | 45 | — |
| PRINCETON R-V JR.-SR. HIGH PRINCETON |
Public | 18.7 | 107 | -3.6% |
| ALBANY HIGH ALBANY |
Public | 22.6 | 130 | -11.0% |
| PATTONSBURG HIGH PATTONSBURG |
Public | 22.7 | 53 | -10.2% |