ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY

As an average-sized primary school in COLUMBIA, Missouri, ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY instructs 344 students from grades K through 5, run under COLUMBIA 93.

COLUMBIA 93 comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 18,640 students; ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY is among them.

On demographics, ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY lists that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 26% White, 10% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the income-and-resources front, ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Boone County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Boone County put median household earnings sit near $72,758, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Boone County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), of which ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY is one.

MURIEL BATTLE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 61.5%.

ELIOT BATTLE ELEMENTARY operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 344 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.