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Nearly Four in Ten Missouri Districts Hit All-Time High Graduation Rates
Missouri's graduation surge is not a story confined to a few high-profile districts. In 2025, 179 of the state's 455 districts posted their highest four-year graduation rate on record, a share of 39.3...
St. Louis City: Stuck at 70 Percent While the Rest of Missouri Soars
Missouri's statewide graduation rate reached an all-time high of 92.7 percent in 2025. St. Louis City graduated 70.3 percent of its students that same year.
Two Cities, Two Trajectories: Kansas City Surges Past St. Louis
In 2019, Kansas City 33 graduated 69.4 percent of its four-year cohort. St. Louis City graduated 71.7 percent. The two districts, Missouri's largest urban systems, were separated by 2.3 percentage poi...
One in Three Missouri Districts at Lowest Enrollment Ever
Rockwood R-VI peaked at 22,568 students in 2012. It was the kind of district that seemed insulated from the forces hollowing out Missouri's urban cores, a well-funded St. Louis County system with stro...
Missouri Hits an All-Time High: 92.7 Percent of Students Graduate on Time
Missouri graduated 92.7 percent of its four-year cohort in 2025, the highest rate in the state's history and roughly six percentage points above the most recently reported national four-year graduatio...
St. Louis City Schools: 68 Buildings, 16,211 Students
Correction (April 12, 2026): The charter enrollment section originally used name-pattern matching to identify St. Louis City charter schools, missing several entities. This version uses district ID-ba...
Missouri Public Schools Just Hit Their Lowest Enrollment in at Least 25 Years
The number on the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's enrollment report is one that no superintendent, school board member, or state legislator wanted to see: 855,081 students ...
Missouri Publishes 2025-26 Enrollment Data
A year ago, Missouri's enrollment was already heading the wrong direction. The state lost 5,580 students between 2023-24 and 2024-25, continuing a slide that had started well before the pandemic. Some...