Public school / Middle
Smith Cotton Junior High Schl
Sedalia, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 292783003143
- District
- Sedalia 200
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Smith Cotton Junior High Schl is a public middle school in Sedalia, Missouri, run by Sedalia 200. It enrols 1,130 students — the 6671st 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
1,130
Teachers
80.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
64.9%
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 Sedalia 200
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.
- 1Smith-Cotton High School1,474 students
- 2Smith Cotton Junior High Schl1,130 students
- 3Skyline Elem.489 students
- 4Parkview Elem.468 students
- 5Heber Hunt Elem.413 students
- 6Sedalia Middle School384 students
- 7Horace Mann Elem.260 students
- 8Early Childhood Ctr.225 students
- Enrollment+235.3%
- Teachers+233.3%
- Students per teacher+9.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+30.8%
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