AVILLA ELEM.

AVILLA ELEM. is one of the one-room-style K-5 schools in AVILLA, Missouri, operated by AVILLA R-XIII, with 114 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so AVILLA ELEM. sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, AVILLA ELEM. answers to AVILLA R-XIII, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, AVILLA ELEM. reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 11% Hispanic. Compared to Jasper County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, AVILLA ELEM. shows 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting AVILLA ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AVILLA 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 69.2%.

In the broader community, Jasper County reports that median household income runs about $60,694, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jasper County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students), AVILLA ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

SARCOXIE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.5 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, AVILLA ELEM. comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 151 students in 2018 compared to 114 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 in 2025.

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