High School Principal Salary in Missouri

How much does a High School Principal make in MO?

As of April 01, 2025, the average annual salary for a High School Principal in Missouri is $115,986. According to Salary.com, salaries can range from a low of $90,615 to a high of $143,822, with most professionals earning between $102,706 and $130,556.

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Location	Avg. Salary	Date Updated
Location Saint Peters, MO	Avg. Salary $117,036	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Adrian, MO	Avg. Salary $117,878	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Advance, MO	Avg. Salary $116,975	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Agency, MO	Avg. Salary $117,866	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Alba, MO	Avg. Salary $107,282	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Albany, MO	Avg. Salary $117,878	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Aldrich, MO	Avg. Salary $107,282	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Alexandria, MO	Avg. Salary $114,350	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Allendale, MO	Avg. Salary $118,635	Date Updated April 01, 2025
Location Allenton, MO	Avg. Salary $116,975	Date Updated April 01, 2025

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What does a High School Principal do?

Common responsibilities of a High School Principal

Demonstrate executive functions such as planning, organizing, remembering, and regulating information and behavior as they pertain to student performance and achievement.

September 28, 2022

Requires the ability to compare and or judge the readily observable functional, technical, structural and compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.

December 18, 2022

Maintains open and consistent lines of communication with students, including meeting and listening to students, and referring them for counseling services as appropriate.

February 28, 2023

Assist conducting informal and formal evaluations of teaching and administrative staff based upon frequent classroom observations to promote continuous learning and improvement of professional practice.

March 16, 2023

Assists the principal in the design and implementation of programs, based on current educational theory and research, to meet the specific needs of the school and its students.

March 18, 2023

Provides supervision for students on campus during extra-curricular activities, in parking lots, cafeteria, restrooms, athletic events and assemblies.

April 03, 2023

Manage the use of school facilities and grounds and coordinate programs associated with student safety to ensure a clean, orderly and safe learning environment.

April 05, 2023

Supervise and evaluate the performance of staff assigned to campus including assistant principal(s), teacher(s), counselor(s), librarian(s) nurse, instructional aides, clerical support staff, cafeteria staff, and custodians.

April 08, 2023

Develop and set annual campus performance objectives for each of the Academic Excellence Indicators using the campus planning process and site-based decision making committee.

April 23, 2023

Communicate effectively, coordinate campus functions, evaluate instructional programs and teacher effectiveness, implement policies and procedures, interpret data, manage budget and staff, manage multiple priorities and projects, and use computer and application software.

May 06, 2023

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About Missouri

Missouri is landlocked and borders eight different states as does its neighbor, Tennessee. No state in the U.S. touches more than eight. Missouri is bounded by Iowa on the north; by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee across the Mississippi River on the east; on the south by Arkansas; and by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the last across the Missouri River) on the west. Whereas the northern and southern boundaries are straight lines, the Missouri Bootheel protrudes southerly into Arkansas. The two largest rivers are the Mississippi (which defines the eastern boundary of the state) and the Misso...

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