BUSH ELEM.

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in FULTON, Missouri, BUSH ELEM. caters to 312 students from grades 1 through 5, part of FULTON 58.

FULTON 58 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,281 students; BUSH ELEM. is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BUSH ELEM. records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% multiracial, 9% Black, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, BUSH ELEM. records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Callaway County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, BUSH ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 51.4%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Around the school, Callaway County reports that median household income runs about $74,176, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Callaway County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,396 students), of which BUSH ELEM. is one.

FULTON MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BUSH ELEM. ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.6%.

BUSH ELEM. operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 389 students in 2018 compared to 312 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.