BLACKWATER ELEM.

BLACKWATER ELEM. is an elementary school of micro-enrollment scale in BLACKWATER, Missouri, part of BLACKWATER R-II, educateing 101 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 68% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

BLACKWATER ELEM. is a school of BLACKWATER R-II, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, BLACKWATER ELEM. shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Cooper County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting BLACKWATER ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Cooper County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BLACKWATER ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of +9.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cooper County put the typical household earns roughly $70,625 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cooper County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,425 students), BLACKWATER ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HARDEMAN ELEM., around 7.5 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. BLACKWATER ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 112 (now 101). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 8.1:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

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