Grand Center Arts Academy High School

Size

Grand Center Arts Academy High School is the smallest of Confluence Academies' 2 high schools; its 402 students are 16.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 381; Grand Center Arts Academy High School is close to their typical size.

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 9 with 122 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 89, against an average of 101 per grade. This year grade 12 has 27% fewer students than grade 9 (89 against 122). 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 Black students: 78.1% here and 70.3% across Confluence Academies. White students are next, at 14.2%. 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 99.9% across Confluence Academies and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 39.1% 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 36.25 full-time-equivalent teachers for 402 students, Grand Center Arts Academy High School has 11.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 402 students would have about 33 teachers, so Grand Center Arts Academy High School has 3.3 more.

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

Location

Grand Center Arts Academy High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Miller Career Academy, 0.2 miles away in St. Louis City School District. Within 10 miles there are 38 other high schools, 20 of them within 5 miles.

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