COOTER ELEM.

COOTER ELEM. is a K-5 school of one-room-style scale in COOTER, Missouri, operated by COOTER R-IV, caters to 79 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so COOTER ELEM. sits 75% smaller than that benchmark.

COOTER ELEM. is one of 2 schools operated by COOTER R-IV, a district that educates 201 students overall.

In terms of who attends, COOTER ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at COOTER ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Pemiscot County's rate of about 94%.

After controlling for student poverty, COOTER ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pemiscot County) shows that median household income runs about $40,089, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 26%. In all, Pemiscot County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,865 students), of which COOTER ELEM. is one.

COOTER HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COOTER ELEM. comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COOTER ELEM. has ticked down 19%, going from 97 students in 2018 to 79 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the COOTER ELEM. community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.