CASSVILLE MIDDLE

CASSVILLE MIDDLE, a reasonably sized intermediate school in CASSVILLE, Missouri, run under CASSVILLE R-IV, educates 395 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

CASSVILLE MIDDLE is one of 4 schools operated by CASSVILLE R-IV, a district that caters to 1,821 students overall.

Looking at the student body, CASSVILLE MIDDLE reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Barry County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, CASSVILLE MIDDLE has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 61% of students at CASSVILLE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CASSVILLE MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 54.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Barry County indicate median household income runs about $58,346, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CASSVILLE MIDDLE is one of 18 public schools in Barry County (combined enrollment of about 4,974 students).

EUNICE THOMAS ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CASSVILLE MIDDLE comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 390 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025.

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