CLARENCE CANNON ELEM.

As a reasonably sized primary school in ELSBERRY, Missouri, CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. enrolls 307 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under ELSBERRY R-II.

ELSBERRY R-II comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 829 students; CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. is among them.

Demographically, CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school lists 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lincoln County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Lincoln County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,278 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Lincoln County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,367 students), CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is IDA CANNON MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.1%.

CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CLARENCE CANNON ELEM. has declined 8%, going from 335 students in 2018 to 307 in 2025.

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