ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM.

ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM. is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in IRONTON, Missouri, overseen by ARCADIA VALLEY R-II, caters to 387 students in grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 23% bigger than typical.

ARCADIA VALLEY R-II comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 974 students; ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM. is among them.

Looking at the student body, ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM. records that nearly all students (94%) are White; the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Iron County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Iron County) logs that median household earnings sit near $48,850, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Iron County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,669 students), ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM.. On composite proficiency, ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM. comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM. operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARCADIA VALLEY ELEM. has climbed 12%, going from 346 students in 2018 to 387 in 2025.

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