Moca-S

Moca-S is an alternative public school located in Springfield, Missouri, serving grades K-12 with a total enrollment of 1,747 students. The school is part of the Sturgeon R-V school district, which is ranked 282 out of 367 districts in Missouri and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Moca-S has shown some strengths, such as its high four-year graduation rates, reaching 94.1% in the 2023-2024 school year, which is significantly higher than the district's average of 85.5% and the state's average of 85.7%. The school also has a relatively low dropout rate, ranging from 1.1% to 1.3% in recent years, lower than the district's average of 4.3% in 2020-2021. However, Moca-S has faced challenges in academic performance, consistently underperforming the district and state averages in most subject areas and grade levels on the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) tests. For example, in 2024-2025, the school's proficiency rates in Mathematics range from 9% to 18.6%, compared to the district's 10.1% to 19.3% and the state's 32.7% to 45.5%.

Interestingly, the nearby MOCAP Attendance Center, which is part of the Springfield R-XII district, outperforms Moca-S in both graduation rates and test scores, with proficiency rates in Mathematics and English Language Arts that are significantly higher than Moca-S and the state averages. This suggests that the challenges faced by Moca-S may be unique to the school, as the nearby Greene Valley School, which has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 5.4, also struggles with higher chronic absenteeism rates compared to Moca-S.