BOIS D'ARC ELEM.

BOIS D'ARC ELEM., an one-room-style middle school in BOIS D'ARC, Missouri, overseen by ASH GROVE R-IV, enrolls 178 students, covering grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 61% smaller than the state mean of about 461.

ASH GROVE R-IV comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 786 students; BOIS D'ARC ELEM. is among them.

In terms of who attends, BOIS D'ARC ELEM. lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BOIS D'ARC ELEM. has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting BOIS D'ARC ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at BOIS D'ARC ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BOIS D'ARC ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household income runs about $61,479, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. BOIS D'ARC ELEM. is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).

The closest other public school is WILLARD CENTRAL ELEM., roughly 4.9 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOIS D'ARC ELEM. at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 62.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 17%: 152 students in 2018 compared to 178 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 97% to 91%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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