CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY

CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in PIEDMONT, Missouri, overseen by CLEARWATER R-I, with 363 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Within CLEARWATER R-I, which oversees 3 schools and 858 students, CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Wayne County) shows that median household earnings sit near $47,226, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Wayne County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,496 students), of which CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY is one.

CLEARWATER HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. CLEARWATER ELEMENTARY's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 452 (now 363). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.