Ruskin High School

Size

Ruskin High School is the only high school in Hickman Mills C-1 School District. Its 1,299 students are 29% of the district's 4,472. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 6.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 884; Ruskin 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 9 with 415 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 247, against an average of 325 per grade. This year grade 12 has 40% fewer students than grade 9 (247 against 415). 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: 61% here and 59.9% across Hickman Mills C-1. Hispanic students are next, at 21%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Hickman Mills C-1 and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 35.1% 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 99.44 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,299 students, Ruskin High School has 13.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 1,299 students would have about 106.5 teachers, so Ruskin High School has 7.1 fewer.

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

Location

Ruskin High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Grandview Senior High School, 2.5 miles away in Grandview C-4 School District. Within 10 miles there are 18 other high schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

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