Joplin High School

Size

Joplin High School is the only high school in Joplin Schools. Its 2,288 students are 29.1% of the district's 7,873. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 12.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 687; Joplin 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 10 with 598 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 530, against an average of 572 per grade. This year grade 12 has 10% fewer students than grade 9 (530 against 588). 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: 67.2% here and 65.6% across Joplin Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 12.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

58.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 66.2% across Joplin Schools and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 23.5% 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 124.55 full-time-equivalent teachers for 2,288 students, Joplin High School has 18.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 2,288 students would have about 187.5 teachers, so Joplin High School has 62.9 fewer.

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

Location

Joplin High School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other high school is Gateway School, 1.5 miles away in Division of Youth Service. Within 10 miles there are 3 other high schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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