Summary:
McCluer High is a public high school located in Florissant, Missouri, serving grades 9-12 with a total enrollment of 1,181 students. The school is part of the Ferguson-Florissant R-II school district, which is ranked 329 out of 386 districts in Missouri and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
McCluer High is a consistently underperforming school, with low academic achievement, high chronic absenteeism, and poor outcomes for subgroups of students. The school's performance on state assessments is significantly below the state and district averages, with only 9.1% of McCluer High students proficient or better in Algebra I, compared to 21% for the district and 41.5% for the state. The school's four-year graduation rate of around 92-93% is slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate has ranged from 2.7% to 6.4% in recent years, which is higher than the state average. Additionally, McCluer High has a very high chronic absenteeism rate, ranging from 38.7% to 69.3% in recent years, significantly higher than the state and district averages.
Interestingly, within the Ferguson-Florissant R-II district, McCluer High performs significantly worse than its neighboring school, McCluer North High, on academic measures. Additionally, the district's STEAM Academy at MSB High School, located just 2.7 miles from McCluer High, outperforms McCluer High across multiple metrics, including test scores, graduation rates, and chronic absenteeism. Comparing to schools in other districts, Ritenour Senior High and Hazelwood West High, both located within a 5-mile radius, also significantly outperform McCluer High on academic measures.
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Detail:
Public 9-12
District:
Ferguson-Florissant R-II
SchoolDigger Rank:
367th of 378 Missouri High Schools
Per Pupil Expenditures: $14,956
Feeder schools for McCluer High:
Student/teacher ratio: 19.4
Number of students: 1,223
Racial breakdown:
African American:
89.1%
Hispanic:
5.6%
Two or more races:
3.0%
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White:
1.9%
American Indian:
0.3%
Free/discounted lunch recipients: 98.7%
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