Capital City High School
Jefferson City, MO · High School · Grades 9-12
Capital City High School is a high school in Jefferson City, MO with 1,404 students enrolled and a 62% proficiency rate. Part of Jefferson City. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Capital City High School is a high school located in Jefferson City, Missouri. The school serves 1,404 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 73% graduation rate.
41% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Capital City High School is part of the Jefferson City in Missouri. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Capital City High School has 1,404 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Jefferson City (543 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 16 percentage points above the district average of 46%. Compared to the Missouri state average of 49%, the school performs 13 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Capital City High School has 1,404 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Capital City High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Capital City High School has a 73% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Capital City High School is part of the Jefferson City in Jefferson City, Missouri. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
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For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.