McKinley Class. Leadership Ac.

Size

Of the 12 high schools in St. Louis City School District, McKinley Class. Leadership Ac. is the 4th largest, with 3.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 393 students, so McKinley Class. Leadership Ac. 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 7 with 132 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 58, against an average of 87 per grade. This year grade 12 has 49% fewer students than grade 6 (58 against 113). 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

White students are the largest group, at 41.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across St. Louis City (11.7%). Black students are next, at 39.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across St. Louis City and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 14.4% 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

McKinley Class. Leadership Ac. has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 610 students would have about 50 teachers, so McKinley Class. Leadership Ac. has 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

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 Lift for Life Academy High School, 1 miles away in Lift for Life Academy. There are 19 high schools within 5 miles and 36 within 10 miles.

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