Public school / Middle
Poplar Bluff Jr. High
Poplar Bluff, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 292545001469
- District
- Poplar Bluff R-I
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Poplar Bluff Jr. High is a public middle school in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, run by Poplar Bluff R-I. It enrols 782 students — the 15027th 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
782
Teachers
53.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
63.6%
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 Poplar Bluff R-I
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.
- 1Poplar Bluff High1,504 students
- 2Poplar Bluff Middle School1,018 students
- 3Poplar Bluff Jr. High782 students
- 4Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Ctr.375 students
- 5O'Neal Elem.325 students
- 6Oak Grove Elem.318 students
- 7Lake Road Elem.305 students
- 8Poplar Bluff Early Childhood C305 students
- Enrollment+132.0%
- Teachers+120.8%
- Students per teacher+14.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+28.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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