BUNKER ELEM.

BUNKER ELEM. is an elementary campus of rural-scale scale in BUNKER, Missouri, part of BUNKER R-III, instructing 105 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so BUNKER ELEM. sits 67% smaller than that benchmark.

BUNKER R-III runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 228 students. BUNKER ELEM. is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BUNKER ELEM. reports that nearly all students (94%) are White. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, BUNKER ELEM. logs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at BUNKER ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Reynolds County's rate of about 61%.

With demographic context factored in, BUNKER ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 63.0%, a residual of +13.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Reynolds County indicate the typical household earns roughly $45,028 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Reynolds County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 854 students), of which BUNKER ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: BUNKER HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, BUNKER ELEM. comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BUNKER ELEM. has ticked down 15%, going from 123 students in 2018 to 105 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 98% to 94% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.