Show-Me State Education Coverage, Driven by Data
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In a fixed 550-record comparison, 159 reached their 2018-19 K12 total by preliminary 2025-26. Native-ID matching preserves renamed districts; statewide totals remain unknown.
Missouri’s published four- and five-year graduation rates were closer in 2024-25, but their difference cannot count students taking an extra year.
Joplin Schools hit a trough of 75.1 percent in 2021 before surging to 96.5 percent by 2025, including an 8.4-point leap in the final year.
Missouri’s White-Black graduation-rate gap narrowed in the available comparison, while the White-Hispanic endpoint gap changed little. The data do not identify causes.
179 of Missouri's 455 districts posted their highest-ever graduation rate in 2025, including 13 that hit 100 percent with meaningful cohort sizes.
Grandview, Sturgeon and Laquey reported large K12 enrollment gains after the host-enrollment transition. Their named program rows support the counts, without proving new openings or a law’s causal effect.
Missouri's graduation rate reached 92.7 percent in 2025, while St. Louis City stayed between 69.7 and 74.0 percent, with a falling Hispanic rate and a smaller cohort.
Kansas City 33 and St. Louis City were within 2 points of each other in 2019. By 2025, an 18-point chasm had opened between Missouri's two largest urban districts.
Springfield R-XII improved its graduation rate every year since 2019, reaching 98.9 percent with a 2,017-student cohort. It now leads all large Missouri districts.
Normandy’s published K12 enrollment fell from 5,603 in 2000-01 to 2,387 in preliminary 2025-26. Its complete reported history shows seventeen annual declines and intermittent rebounds.
Kansas City’s complete published K12 history shows three annual gains after its observed 2021-22 low, followed by a seven-student preliminary decline in 2025-26. The figures do not identify causes.
Missouri's four-year graduation rate reached 92.7 percent in 2025, the highest on record, with a growing cohort that produced nearly 4,000 more graduates than in 2019.
Complete published histories for fourteen named districts show inner-group losses, outer-group growth since the first endpoint and recent declines. These counts do not identify student movements or causes.
Kansas City 33's graduation rate climbed from 69.4 percent in 2019 to 88.2 percent in 2025, a turnaround driven by even larger gains among Black students.
St. Louis City reported 15,558 K12 students in preliminary 2025-26, down 62.9% from 2000-01. District and complete charter comparisons carry explicit source limits.
