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GRATZ BROWN 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 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 GRATZ BROWN ELEM.
GRATZ BROWN ELEM. is an average-sized elementary campus in MOBERLY, Missouri, overseen by MOBERLY. The school works with 398 students in grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 315.
MOBERLY runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,102 students. GRATZ BROWN ELEM. is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, GRATZ BROWN ELEM. shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 14% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at GRATZ BROWN ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Randolph County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
With demographic context factored in, GRATZ BROWN ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -16.7 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Randolph County put the typical household earns roughly $53,033 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Randolph County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,375 students), of which GRATZ BROWN ELEM. is one.
EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CNTR is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRATZ BROWN ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.4%.
GRATZ BROWN ELEM. operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GRATZ BROWN ELEM. has declined 23%, going from 515 students in 2018 to 398 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 80% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Randolph County at a glance
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- Alt Center for Educ SuccessCombined
- MOBERLY SR. HIGHHigh · 655 students
- MOBERLY MIDDLEMiddle · 440 students
- SOUTH PARK ELEM.Elementary · 229 students
- NORTH PARK ELEM.Elementary · 214 students
- EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CNTRElementary · 166 students
- Alt Center for Educ SuccessCombined
- EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CNTR0.1 mi · 166
- MOBERLY MIDDLE0.2 mi · 440
- MOBERLY SR. HIGH0.4 mi · 655
- SOUTH PARK ELEM.1.2 mi · 229
- NORTH PARK ELEM.1.9 mi · 214
- RENICK ELEM.4.1 mi · 80