DELTA ELEM.

DELTA ELEM. is an elementary school of minimally staffed scale in DELTA, Missouri, operated by DELTA R-V, instructing 108 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so DELTA ELEM. sits 66% below that benchmark.

Within DELTA R-V, which oversees 2 schools and 225 students, DELTA ELEM. is one campus in the system.

On demographics, DELTA ELEM. logs that nearly all students (99%) are White. By comparison, Cape Girardeau County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, DELTA ELEM. has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting DELTA ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DELTA 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 49.6%.

Around the school, Cape Girardeau County reports that median household income runs about $68,464, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Cape Girardeau County runs 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,025 students), of which DELTA ELEM. is one.

DELTA HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around DELTA ELEM.. On composite proficiency, DELTA ELEM. comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 126 students in 2018 compared to 108 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for DELTA ELEM. typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.