NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Sikeston, MO

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11 public K-12 schools in Sikeston from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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11
Schools
3,618
Students
49.5/100
Avg Resource Index
12.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sikeston has more public-school enrollment than 38% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sikeston lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Sikeston's 11 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

98.9% of enrollment in reporting Sikeston schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 4 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 31-point gap between Southeast Elem. and Sikeston Hope Ctr. shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 62%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
85th percentile
Teacher staffing
86th percentile

Sikeston Senior High School accounts for 26.4% of all Sikeston public-school enrollment

That concentration means Sikeston-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Sikeston school enrollment varies 87× across entities

Sikeston school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 955 students (highest), a spread of 944 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Sikeston reports 98.9% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Sikeston student-teacher ratio is 12.3:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Southeast Elem. 61
2. Wing Elem. 57
3. Sikeston Middle School 55
4. Sikeston Junior High School 55
5. New Dawn School 54
6. Lee Hunter Elem. 51
7. Scott Co. Central Elem. 51
8. Scott Co. Central High 51
9. Sikeston Senior High School 41
10. Sikeston Kindergarten Ctr. 38
11. Sikeston Hope Ctr. 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sikeston

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Wing Elem. 64.2/100
  2. 2 Southeast Elem. 63.2/100
  3. 3 Sikeston Junior High School 63.0/100
  4. 4 Sikeston Senior High School 60.1/100
  5. 5 Sikeston Middle School 59.9/100

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Which Sikeston school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Southeast Elem. has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sikeston schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sikeston, MO? ▼

Sikeston has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,618 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.