GRANDVIEW MIDDLE

GRANDVIEW MIDDLE operates as an one-room-style junior high in HILLSBORO, Missouri, part of GRANDVIEW R-II. Current enrollment sits at 138 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 70% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

GRANDVIEW R-II comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 4,501 students; GRANDVIEW MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GRANDVIEW MIDDLE logs that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 2% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting GRANDVIEW MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, GRANDVIEW MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 57.1%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. GRANDVIEW MIDDLE is one of 69 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students).

Missouri Virtual Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GRANDVIEW MIDDLE at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 43.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 174 students in 2018 compared to 138 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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