FESTUS INTERMEDIATE

FESTUS INTERMEDIATE, a heavily attended middle-grades school in FESTUS, Missouri, one of the schools within FESTUS R-VI, educates 804 students, covering grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so FESTUS INTERMEDIATE sits 74% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in FESTUS R-VI (3,495 students total), FESTUS INTERMEDIATE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, FESTUS INTERMEDIATE logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at FESTUS INTERMEDIATE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, FESTUS INTERMEDIATE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.5%; actual is 29.8%, a gap of -20.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FESTUS INTERMEDIATE is one of 69 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students).

Nearest neighbor: FESTUS ELEM., around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FESTUS INTERMEDIATE. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FESTUS INTERMEDIATE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 60.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FESTUS INTERMEDIATE has rose 7%, going from 753 students in 2018 to 804 in 2025.

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