Mehlville High School

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Mehlville R-IX School District, Mehlville High School is the smallest, with 13.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.4 miles away and have a median of 662 students, so Mehlville 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 12 with 388 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 325, against an average of 347 per grade. This year grade 12 has 19% more students than grade 9 (388 against 327). 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 68.4% of enrollment, a lower share than across Mehlville R-IX (78.8%). Black students are next, at 12.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

42.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.1% across Mehlville R-IX and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 16% 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

Mehlville High School has 102.18 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 1,388 students would have about 113.8 teachers, so Mehlville High School has 11.6 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Hancock Senior High School, 2 miles away in Hancock Place School District. There are 6 high schools within 5 miles and 28 within 10 miles.

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