CALEDONIA ELEM.

Set in CALEDONIA, Missouri, CALEDONIA ELEM. is an intimate K-5 school, one of the schools within VALLEY R-VI. It instructs 198 students across grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 37% smaller than typical.

VALLEY R-VI runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 368 students. CALEDONIA ELEM. is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CALEDONIA ELEM. lists that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CALEDONIA ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Washington County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $56,043 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Washington County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,450 students), CALEDONIA ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

VALLEY HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CALEDONIA ELEM. comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 199 students in 2018 compared to 198 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.