EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE

Set in ELLSINORE, Missouri, EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE is an one-room-style middle-grades school, overseen by EAST CARTER CO. R-II. It caters to 154 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 461.

EAST CARTER CO. R-II runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 698 students. EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Carter County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 47.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Carter County indicate median household income runs about $50,000, roughly 10% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Carter County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,164 students), of which EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: EAST CARTER CO. R-II ELEM., around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, EAST CARTER CO. R-II MIDDLE comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 155 students in 2018 compared to 154 in 2025.

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