ALTENBURG ELEM.

Located at 8432 Main Street, in ALTENBURG, Missouri, ALTENBURG ELEM. is a rural-scale primary school that instructs 113 students (grades pre-K through 8), overseen by ALTENBURG 48. That puts it 64% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

ALTENBURG ELEM. sits inside ALTENBURG 48, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, ALTENBURG ELEM. logs that nearly all students (98%) are White.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Perry County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ALTENBURG ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Perry County shows median household earnings sit near $62,981, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Perry County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,216 students), of which ALTENBURG ELEM. is one.

OAK RIDGE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 11.7 miles from this campus. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALTENBURG ELEM. ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.6%.

ALTENBURG ELEM. operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALTENBURG ELEM. has edged up 22%, going from 93 students in 2018 to 113 in 2025.

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