COLE CO. R-I ELEM.

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in RUSSELLVILLE, Missouri, COLE CO. R-I ELEM. teaches 319 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by COLE CO. R-I.

Across the 2 schools in COLE CO. R-I (604 students total), COLE CO. R-I ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, COLE CO. R-I ELEM. records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cole County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, COLE CO. R-I ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 48.7%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Cole County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,876, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. COLE CO. R-I ELEM. is one of 28 public schools in Cole County (combined enrollment of about 10,312 students).

RUSSELLVILLE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COLE CO. R-I ELEM. ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.0%.

COLE CO. R-I ELEM. operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. COLE CO. R-I ELEM.'s enrollment has expanded 21% since 2018, when it stood at 264 (now 319). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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