Public school / High
William Chrisman High
Independence, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 291548000724
- District
- Independence 30
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
William Chrisman High is a public high school in Independence, Missouri, run by Independence 30. It enrols 1,406 students — the 4296th 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
1,406
Teachers
83.0
Students per teacher
16.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
65.7%
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 Independence 30
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.
- 1Truman High1,662 students
- 2William Chrisman High1,406 students
- 3Van Horn High1,047 students
- 4Clifford H. Nowlin Middle875 students
- 5Pioneer Ridge Middle806 students
- 6Bingham Middle774 students
- 7Bridger Middle770 students
- 8Sycamore Hills Elem.543 students
- Enrollment+317.2%
- Teachers+245.8%
- Students per teacher+31.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+32.5%
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