Emil E. Holt Senior High School

Size

Of the 4 high schools in Wentzville R-IV School District, Emil E. Holt Senior High School is the smallest, with 5.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 8.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,532; Emil E. Holt Senior 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 10 with 278 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 224, against an average of 256 per grade. This year grade 12 has 20% more students than grade 9 (268 against 224). 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: 70.6% here and 75% across Wentzville R-IV. Black students are next, at 12.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

17.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 16.2% across Wentzville R-IV and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 9.8% 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 76.97 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,022 students, Emil E. Holt Senior High School has 13.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 1,022 students would have about 83.8 teachers, so Emil E. Holt Senior High School has 6.8 fewer.

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

Location

Emil E. Holt Senior High School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is North Point High School, 2.1 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.