CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 20 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a medium-sized elementary campus in CARROLLTON, Missouri, CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 310 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under CARROLLTON R-VII.
CARROLLTON R-VII runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 839 students. CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (97%) are White. That composition is broadly in line with Carroll County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of +1.1 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Carroll County put median household earnings sit near $62,154, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 12 public schools in Carroll County (combined enrollment of about 1,268 students).
Nearest neighbor: MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 51.4%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CARROLLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has expanded 61%, going from 193 students in 2018 to 310 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.
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