ELKHORN ELEMENTARY

ELKHORN ELEMENTARY is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Missouri, run under EXCELSIOR SPRINGS 40, with 239 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 24% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

ELKHORN ELEMENTARY is one of 7 schools operated by EXCELSIOR SPRINGS 40, a district that works with 2,661 students overall.

In terms of who attends, ELKHORN ELEMENTARY logs that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Ray County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ray County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ELKHORN ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ray County indicate median household income runs about $74,573, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ray County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,423 students), ELKHORN ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LEWIS ELEMENTARY, around 5.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELKHORN ELEMENTARY at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 242 students in 2018 compared to 239 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 91% to 83%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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