Metro High School

Size

Of the 12 high schools in St. Louis City School District, Metro High School is the 9th largest, with 1.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 405; Metro 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 9 with 85 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 72, against an average of 79 per grade. This year grade 12 has 15% fewer students than grade 9 (72 against 85). 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: 52.4% here and 11.7% across St. Louis City. Black students are next, at 24.6%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across St. Louis City and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 9.5% 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 24 full-time-equivalent teachers for 317 students, Metro High School has 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 317 students would have about 26 teachers, so Metro High School has 2 fewer.

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

Location

Metro High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Griscom Juvenile Detention Center, 0.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 40 other high schools, 23 of them within 5 miles.

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