Central Visual/Perf. Arts High School

Size

Central Visual/Perf. Arts High School is the 10th largest of St. Louis City School District's 12 high schools; its 314 students are 1.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 397; Central Visual/Perf. Arts High School is smaller 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 83 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 66, against an average of 79 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 83 in grade 9 and 83 in grade 12.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 69.1% here and 74.8% across St. Louis City. Hispanic students are next, at 14%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across St. Louis City and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 38.5% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

With 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers for 314 students, Central Visual/Perf. Arts High School has 10.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 314 students would have about 25.7 teachers, so Central Visual/Perf. Arts High School has 3.2 more.

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

Location

Central Visual/Perf. Arts High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Collegiate School of Med/Bio (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 42 other high schools, 26 of them within 5 miles.

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