ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE

ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE is one of the compact middle schools in IRONTON, Missouri, run under ARCADIA VALLEY R-II, with 281 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 39% smaller than the state mean of about 461.

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

In terms of who attends, ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE logs that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Iron County's rate of about 75%.

With demographic context factored in, ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.4%; ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE posts 27.3%, -22.1 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Iron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $48,850 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Iron County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,669 students), ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

ARCADIA VALLEY HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARCADIA VALLEY MIDDLE at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 297 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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