EAST ELEM.

Located at 2449 E HARTLEY, in OZARK, Missouri, EAST ELEM. is an expansive K-5 school that instructs 515 students (grades K through 4), overseen by OZARK R-VI. That puts it 63% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

OZARK R-VI runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,959 students. EAST ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, EAST ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school records 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Christian County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, EAST ELEM. shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting EAST ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, EAST ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of +18.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Christian County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,437 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. EAST ELEM. is one of 33 public schools in Christian County (combined enrollment of about 16,175 students).

Nearest neighbor: OZARK TIGERPAW EARLY CHILD CTR, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around EAST ELEM.. On composite proficiency, EAST ELEM. comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.8%.

EAST ELEM. operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EAST ELEM. has contracted 23%, going from 671 students in 2018 to 515 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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