COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM.

Set in GALLATIN, Missouri, COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. is a modestly sized primary school, one of the schools within GALLATIN R-V. It teaches 225 students across grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. sits 29% below that benchmark.

GALLATIN R-V comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 547 students; COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder reads as 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.4%; this one comes in at 17.0%, -33.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Daviess County indicate median household income runs about $63,984, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Daviess County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,078 students), of which COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is GALLATIN MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM.. On composite proficiency, COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. has edged down 3%, going from 231 students in 2018 to 225 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for COVEL D. SEARCY ELEM. typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.