DeLaSalle Charter High School

Size

DeLaSalle Charter High School is the largest of Delasalle Charter School's 2 high schools; its 196 students are 89.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 309 students, so DeLaSalle Charter High School is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 12 with 63 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 32, against an average of 49 per grade. This year grade 12 has 97% more students than grade 9 (63 against 32). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 86.7% of enrollment, about the same share as across Delasalle Charter School (85.5%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 90.5% across Delasalle Charter School and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 54.6% 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

DeLaSalle Charter High School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 196 students would have about 16.1 teachers, so DeLaSalle Charter High School has 4.1 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Academie Lafayette Armour Ihs, 0.7 miles away in Academie Lafayette. There are 16 high schools within 5 miles and 27 within 10 miles.

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