CARTERVILLE ELEM.

CARTERVILLE ELEM. operates as an intimate elementary school in CARTERVILLE, Missouri, run under WEBB CITY R-VII. Current enrollment sits at 232 students spanning grades K through 4. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Within WEBB CITY R-VII, which oversees 11 schools and 4,623 students, CARTERVILLE ELEM. is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CARTERVILLE ELEM. lists that nearly all students (83%) are White. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Jasper County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, CARTERVILLE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jasper County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,694, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jasper County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students), CARTERVILLE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

WEBSTER PRIMARY CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CARTERVILLE ELEM. comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CARTERVILLE ELEM. has declined 23%, going from 300 students in 2018 to 232 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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