ADRIAN ELEM.

ADRIAN ELEM. operates as an average-sized elementary school in ADRIAN, Missouri, overseen by ADRIAN R-III. Current enrollment sits at 314 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within ADRIAN R-III, which oversees 2 schools and 689 students, ADRIAN ELEM. is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ADRIAN ELEM. shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ADRIAN ELEM. reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Bates County's rate of about 41%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ADRIAN ELEM. falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.7%; this one comes in at 18.3%, -32.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bates County indicate median household income runs about $60,733, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bates County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,514 students), of which ADRIAN ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: ADRIAN SR. HIGH, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ADRIAN ELEM. at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 42.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 99% to 90% over that span.

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