BENTON ELEM.

BENTON ELEM. is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in MARSHALL, Missouri, part of MARSHALL, works with 200 students in grades 3 through 4. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so BENTON ELEM. sits 37% leaner than that benchmark.

Within MARSHALL, which oversees 7 schools and 2,498 students, BENTON ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BENTON ELEM. records that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 5% Pacific Islander, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting BENTON ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, BENTON ELEM. ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.2%; BENTON ELEM. posts 80.8%, +30.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Saline County shows the typical household earns roughly $57,931 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. BENTON ELEM. is one of 20 public schools in Saline County (combined enrollment of about 3,543 students).

Nearest neighbor: BUEKER MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around BENTON ELEM.. On composite proficiency, BENTON ELEM. comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BENTON ELEM.'s enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 225 (now 200). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 31% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.