DIXON MIDDLE

DIXON MIDDLE is one of the low-enrollment 6-8 campuss in DIXON, Missouri, run under DIXON R-I, with 197 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 57% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

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

On demographics, DIXON MIDDLE reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Pulaski County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pulaski County (around 44%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, DIXON MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -9.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Pulaski County shows median household earnings sit near $64,466, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

DIXON HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DIXON MIDDLE at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. DIXON MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 212 (now 197).

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