The top reported proficiency rate is 46% in English language arts. The lowest is 42% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Webb City Jr. High
Webb City Jr. High serves seventh and eighth graders in the Webb City R-VII district, a regular public school that feeds into Webb City High School. For a family trying to understand this school, the picture is one of a mid-sized junior high in a small Missouri city with a working-class and industrial history, where academic performance is close to the middle of the pack among Jasper County schools but with a clear drop in math proficiency between seventh and eighth grade.
The community context matters for understanding the school’s setting. Webb City is a small city that grew explosively as a lead and zinc mining camp in the late 1800s, peaked around World War I, then settled into a quieter industrial and agricultural economy after mining declined. Historic Route 66 runs through its downtown commercial district, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The city is compact. A substantial share of households have children under eighteen. The school’s enrollment reflects the area’s demographics, with a student body that is predominantly white, with the next largest group being Hispanic students, and very small shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. Housing values and rents in the area are below national medians, which aligns with the area’s modest cost of living. The district brief found no recent major changes publicly reported for Webb City R-VII that would be of particular note to parents.
On state testing, the school’s results show a mixed picture. In seventh grade, slightly more than half of students scored proficient or above in math, while in eighth grade that share dropped to about a third. In English language arts, the school is more consistent: a little under half of students were proficient in both seventh and eighth grade. In eighth-grade science, just over two in five students reached the proficient level. The school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits slightly above the midpoint among the seven districts in Jasper County, meaning it performs in the middle range of local districts. The drop in eighth-grade math is the most notable soft spot; a parent may want to ask the school about how math instruction and alignment work between seventh and eighth grade, and what supports are in place for students entering that grade.
The school serves only seventh and eighth grades, so there is no graduation rate or four-year cohort data to consider. That is simply a function of the grade band. Likewise, data on chronic absenteeism and on special populations such as students with IEPs or English learners was not available for this profile, so a parent interested in those areas would need to follow up with the school directly. The school is a regular public school, not a charter, not a magnet, and there is no Title I status listed in the available data.
Enrollment is about what you would expect for a junior high serving a city of Webb City’s size, with roughly even numbers of seventh and eighth graders. Nearly half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which signals that a sizable portion of families have lower household incomes. The school does not have publicly available data on discipline, course access, or staffing ratios. For families weighing options, this is a straightforward public junior high in a small city with a historic downtown, a largely white student body, and academic results that are mixed: seventh-grade math is a relative strength, eighth-grade math is a clear area of concern, and English and science land in between. A parent looking at this school will want to understand how the transition to eighth-grade math works and what academic support systems the school runs.
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