Blue Springs High School

Size

Blue Springs High School is the largest of Blue Springs R-IV School District's 2 high schools; its 2,429 students are 16.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 7.4 miles away and have a median of 1,514 students, so Blue Springs 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 713 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 558, against an average of 607 per grade. This year grade 12 has 21% fewer students than grade 9 (562 against 713). 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

White students are the largest group, at 62.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Blue Springs R-IV (64.6%). Black students are next, at 13.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

31.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.6% across Blue Springs R-IV and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 10.6% 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

Blue Springs High School has 153.04 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 2,429 students would have about 199.1 teachers, so Blue Springs High School has 46.1 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Blue Springs South High School, 2.4 miles away in the same district. There are 2 high schools within 5 miles and 12 within 10 miles.

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