BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL

BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL, a tight-knit junior high in BOURBON, Missouri, overseen by CRAWFORD CO. R-I, enrolls 238 students, covering grades 5 through 8. That puts it 48% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

CRAWFORD CO. R-I comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 827 students; BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Crawford County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 44% of students at BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 53.7%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Crawford County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,629, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Crawford County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,915 students), of which BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BOURBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. BOURBON MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 295 (now 238).

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.