Public school / High
Dexter High
Dexter, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 291077000363
- District
- Dexter R-Xi
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dexter High is a public high school in Dexter, Missouri, run by Dexter R-Xi. It enrols 587 students — the 27940th largest of 2,483 public schools in Missouri.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
587
Teachers
41.0
Students per teacher
14.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
44.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Dexter R-Xi
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Dexter High587 students
- 2Southwest Elem.473 students
- 3Central Elem.451 students
- 4T. S. Hill Middle443 students
- 5Southwest Elementary Preschool85 students
- Enrollment+74.2%
- Teachers+70.8%
- Students per teacher+10.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−10.7%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory