GRAY ELEM.

GRAY ELEM., a roomy primary school in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, part of SPRINGFIELD R-XII, caters to 474 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 50% larger than the state mean of about 315.

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

Demographically, GRAY ELEM. lists that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at school resources, GRAY ELEM. records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at GRAY ELEM. qualify 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GRAY ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 57.8%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,479, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Greene County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), GRAY ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

MCBRIDE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GRAY ELEM.. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRAY ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 62.9%.

GRAY ELEM. operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. GRAY ELEM.'s enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 522 (now 474).

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