BILLINGS ELEM.

Located at 118 W MT VERNON, in BILLINGS, Missouri, BILLINGS ELEM. is a small elementary school that instructs 249 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by BILLINGS R-IV. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Within BILLINGS R-IV, which oversees 2 schools and 398 students, BILLINGS ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BILLINGS ELEM. lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school logs 3% Black, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Christian County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Christian County (around 33%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BILLINGS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -10.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Christian County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,437 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Christian County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,175 students), BILLINGS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BILLINGS SR. HIGH, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BILLINGS ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BILLINGS ELEM. has ticked up 22%, going from 204 students in 2018 to 249 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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