EUGENE ELEM.
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About EUGENE ELEM.
EUGENE ELEM. is a mid-sized K-5 school in EUGENE, Missouri, operated by COLE CO. R-V. The school teaches 365 students in grades pre-K through 6.
COLE CO. R-V runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 629 students. EUGENE ELEM. is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, EUGENE ELEM. reports that nearly all students (96%) are White. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Cole County's rate of about 47%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EUGENE ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 67.6%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cole County put the typical household earns roughly $74,876 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Cole County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,312 students), of which EUGENE ELEM. is one.
Nearest neighbor: EUGENE HIGH, around 0.1 miles off. 3 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 EUGENE ELEM. at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 44.2%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EUGENE ELEM. has ticked up 13%, going from 323 students in 2018 to 365 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.
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