Benton High School

Size

Benton High School is the 2nd largest of St. Joseph School District's 3 high schools; its 682 students are 6.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 7.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 335; Benton High School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 9 with 193 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 149, against an average of 171 per grade. This year grade 12 has 23% fewer students than grade 9 (149 against 193). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 72% here and 62% across St. Joseph. Hispanic students are next, at 14.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

46.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.4% across St. Joseph and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 23.9% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 50.71 full-time-equivalent teachers for 682 students, Benton High School has 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 682 students would have about 55.9 teachers, so Benton High School has 5.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

Location

Benton High School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other high school is Central High School, 3.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 5 other high schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.