The reported proficiency rate for Math is 77%.
Original Research by School Decision on Santa Fe High
Santa Fe High serves grades seven through twelve in the small, mainly residential rural community of Alma, Missouri, a town that is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The town itself is compact, covering only a few square miles, and the school is integrated into the community fabric. The area has experienced a slight population decline in recent years, and publicly reported information suggests limited new development activity. For the district, the Santa Fe R-X district, no recent referendums, curriculum overhauls, or property-tax shifts were found in publicly available sources.
The school's enrollment is small for a combined middle and high school. The student body is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population and a very small Black population represented. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not available in the source material.
In terms of academic performance, the picture is mixed and in some areas incomplete. In mathematics, seventh-grade students posted a proficiency rate that placed the school in the top quartile relative to other districts in Lafayette County, a notably strong showing. However, the eighth-grade math results, along with all English language arts results for both seventh and eighth grades, and the eighth-grade science results, were suppressed in the data. This suppression is common when tested group sizes are very small, which is consistent with a school of this size. A parent may want to follow up directly with the school for those specific grade-level results, as they are not available in the public data reviewed here. The overall proficiency index, which combines the reported math score with the suppressed others, still placed the school in the top quartile among the county’s districts, a strong position.
Because the school serves only through twelfth grade, the state’s four-year graduation rate was examined but was missing from the data. Similarly, the chronic absenteeism rate was not available. These gaps mean a parent cannot fully evaluate the school's completion and attendance patterns from this data alone.
The school has no charter or magnet status. No information on course access, staffing ratios, or discipline was provided in the data. The town’s civic anchors include a post office, a Lutheran church with an associated elementary school, and the high school itself, which serves as a central community institution. The available data suggests a school that is performing well in the areas it reports, particularly in seventh-grade math, within a small, stable rural district, but where key slices of information on other grade levels and outcomes are simply not visible in the public record.
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