BLUE RIDGE ELEM.

BLUE RIDGE ELEM. operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in COLUMBIA, Missouri, operated by COLUMBIA 93. Current enrollment sits at 453 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so BLUE RIDGE ELEM. sits 44% bigger than that benchmark.

BLUE RIDGE ELEM. is one of 34 schools operated by COLUMBIA 93, a district that enrolls 18,640 students overall.

On the student-mix side, BLUE RIDGE ELEM. logs that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 20% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Boone County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BLUE RIDGE 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 49.9%; BLUE RIDGE ELEM. posts 72.3%, +22.4 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,758 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Boone County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), BLUE RIDGE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

OAKLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BLUE RIDGE ELEM.. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BLUE RIDGE ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 62.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 425 students in 2018 compared to 453 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 24% to 20% over that span.

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