University Academy-Upper

Size

University Academy-Upper is the only high school in University Academy. Its 237 students are 21.3% of the district's 1,111. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 360; University Academy-Upper is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 101 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 38, against an average of 59 per grade. This year grade 12 has 62% fewer students than grade 9 (38 against 101). 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: 94.1% here and 94% across University Academy. 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 University Academy and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 33.8% 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 18 full-time-equivalent teachers for 237 students, University Academy-Upper has 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 237 students would have about 19.4 teachers, so University Academy-Upper has 1.4 fewer.

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

Location

University Academy-Upper is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Hogan Preparatory Academy, 0.6 miles away in Hogan Preparatory Academy. Within 10 miles there are 25 other high schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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