EZARD ELEM.

EZARD ELEM. is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in CONWAY, Missouri, part of LACLEDE CO. R-I, with 422 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

LACLEDE CO. R-I runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 751 students. EZARD ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, EZARD ELEM. records that nearly all students (96%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 2% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, EZARD ELEM. has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Laclede County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EZARD ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Laclede County indicate median household income runs about $53,282, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Laclede County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,763 students), EZARD ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CONWAY HIGH SCHOOLS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, EZARD ELEM. comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 417 students in 2018 compared to 422 in 2025.

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