Public Schools in Missouri
2,321 schools · 557 districts · 892,246 students
Largest Schools in Missouri
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Blue Springs High
Blue Springs
Liberty North High School
Liberty
Blue Springs South High
Blue Springs
Lindbergh Sr. High
St. Louis
Joplin High
Joplin
Troy Buchanan High
Troy
Marquette Sr. High
Chesterfield
Raymore-Peculiar Sr. High
Peculiar
David H. Hickman High
Columbia
Hazelwood West High
Hazelwood
Frequently Asked Questions
Missouri has 2,321 public schools across 557 districts, serving 892,246 students.
The largest school in Missouri is Blue Springs High with 2,383 students. Missouri has 2,321 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 49%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
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.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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.