CHAFFEE ELEM.

As an average-sized elementary school in CHAFFEE, Missouri, CHAFFEE ELEM. instructs 293 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by CHAFFEE R-II.

CHAFFEE R-II comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 562 students; CHAFFEE ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, CHAFFEE ELEM. shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CHAFFEE ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 42.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,782 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students), of which CHAFFEE ELEM. is one.

CHAFFEE JR.-SR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHAFFEE ELEM. at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.0%.

CHAFFEE ELEM. operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 26%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 293 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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