BOLIVAR MIDDLE

Located at 604 W JACKSON, in BOLIVAR, Missouri, BOLIVAR MIDDLE is a mid-tier intermediate school that instructs 587 students (grades 6 through 8), run under BOLIVAR R-I. Enrollment runs roughly 27% above the state mean of about 461.

BOLIVAR R-I runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,725 students. BOLIVAR MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BOLIVAR MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder looks like 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Polk County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. 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. That share is noticeably below Polk County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BOLIVAR MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 34.7%, a residual of -15.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Polk County put median household earnings sit near $59,647, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Polk County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,965 students), BOLIVAR MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Exceptional Pupil Coop.-ECSE, roughly 1.2 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOLIVAR MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.2%.

BOLIVAR MIDDLE operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. BOLIVAR MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 620 (now 587). Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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