FIELD ELEM.

FIELD ELEM. operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, part of SPRINGFIELD R-XII. Current enrollment sits at 401 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 27% larger than typical.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 24,450 students; FIELD ELEM. is among them.

Demographically, FIELD ELEM. reports that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, FIELD ELEM. has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FIELD ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Greene County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,479 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FIELD ELEM. is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: PERSHING ELEM., around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FIELD ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FIELD ELEM. at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FIELD ELEM. has contracted 3%, going from 414 students in 2018 to 401 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 90% to 78%.

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