DIXON ELEM.

DIXON ELEM. is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in DIXON, Missouri, part of DIXON R-I, works with 383 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so DIXON ELEM. sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.

Within DIXON R-I, which oversees 3 schools and 851 students, DIXON ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, DIXON ELEM. shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pulaski County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DIXON ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of -4.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Pulaski County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,466 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pulaski County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,884 students), DIXON ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DIXON MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DIXON ELEM. ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 47.7%.

DIXON ELEM. operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 460 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for DIXON ELEM. typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.