ADAIR CO. ELEM.

ADAIR CO. ELEM. is an one-room-style elementary-level community in BRASHEAR, Missouri, part of ADAIR CO. R-II. The school enrolls 73 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 77% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Within ADAIR CO. R-II, which oversees 2 schools and 144 students, ADAIR CO. ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, ADAIR CO. ELEM. reports that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 3% Native American. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 48% of students at ADAIR CO. ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, ADAIR CO. ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Adair County indicate median household income runs about $61,536, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ADAIR CO. ELEM. is one of 9 public schools in Adair County (combined enrollment of about 2,724 students).

ADAIR CO. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, ADAIR CO. ELEM. comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 77 students in 2018 compared to 73 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 7.4:1 in 2018 to 6.0:1 today.

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