CALLAO ELEM.

CALLAO ELEM. is an one-room-style primary school in CALLAO, Missouri, part of CALLAO C-8. The school caters to 35 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so CALLAO ELEM. sits 89% below that benchmark.

CALLAO ELEM. is a school of CALLAO C-8, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CALLAO ELEM. logs that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 14% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Macon County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, Macon County reports that median household income runs about $62,357, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Macon County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,015 students), of which CALLAO ELEM. is one.

BEVIER HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

CALLAO ELEM. operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 30%: 50 students in 2018 compared to 35 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 5.8:1 in 2018 to 4.5:1 today.

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