COUCH ELEM.

Located at 22206 MO 142, in MYRTLE, Missouri, COUCH ELEM. is an one-room-style K-5 school that educates 94 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under COUCH R-I. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so COUCH ELEM. sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

COUCH ELEM. is one of 2 schools operated by COUCH R-I, a district that serves 186 students overall.

Demographically, COUCH ELEM. records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COUCH ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 63.1%.

Around the school, Oregon County reports that the typical household earns roughly $43,069 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oregon County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,750 students), of which COUCH ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is COUCH HIGH, roughly 0.0 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COUCH ELEM. at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 45.4%.

COUCH ELEM. operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 12%: 84 students in 2018 compared to 94 in 2025.

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