EAST LYNNE ELEM.

EAST LYNNE ELEM., a cozy primary school in EAST LYNNE, Missouri, operated by EAST LYNNE 40, teaches 155 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 51% below typical.

Operationally, EAST LYNNE ELEM. answers to EAST LYNNE 40, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, EAST LYNNE ELEM. lists that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, On paper, EAST LYNNE ELEM. has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting EAST LYNNE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAST LYNNE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cass County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,535 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Cass County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students), of which EAST LYNNE ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: HARRISONVILLE ELEM., around 5.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, EAST LYNNE ELEM. comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 24%: 125 students in 2018 compared to 155 in 2025.

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