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ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 18 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in BARNHART, Missouri, ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls 535 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by FOX C-6.
Across the 18 schools in FOX C-6 (10,258 students total), ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 30% of students at ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 37.2%, a residual of -13.5 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Jefferson County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
ANTONIA ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.1%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ANTONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 546 students in 2018 to 535 in 2025.
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