DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE

DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE, a small 6-8 campus in FESTUS, Missouri, part of JEFFERSON CO. R-VII, works with 246 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 461.

DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE is one of 5 schools operated by JEFFERSON CO. R-VII, a district that works with 1,036 students overall.

Looking at the student body, DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Jefferson County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Jefferson County's rate of about 38%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.8%.

Around the school, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $82,851, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

JEFFERSON R-VII PRESCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.

DANBY-RUSH TOWER MIDDLE operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 5%: 235 students in 2018 compared to 246 in 2025.

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