AVA ELEM.

AVA ELEM., a high-enrollment K-5 school in AVA, Missouri, part of AVA R-I, works with 553 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 76% larger than the state mean of about 315.

AVA R-I runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,330 students. AVA ELEM. is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, AVA ELEM. records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Douglas County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting AVA ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AVA ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 31.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Douglas County put the typical household earns roughly $45,985 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. AVA ELEM. is one of 5 public schools in Douglas County (combined enrollment of about 1,511 students).

AVA 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 AVA ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts AVA ELEM. at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 59.0%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 11%: 498 students in 2018 compared to 553 in 2025.

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