GREEN FOREST ELEM.

GREEN FOREST ELEM. operates as an intimate elementary school in SALEM, Missouri, run under GREEN FOREST R-II. Current enrollment sits at 152 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 52% leaner than typical.

GREEN FOREST ELEM. sits inside GREEN FOREST R-II, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, GREEN FOREST ELEM. logs that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dent County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GREEN FOREST ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 58.6%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dent County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,312 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Dent County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,169 students), GREEN FOREST ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OAK HILL ELEM., around 6.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREEN FOREST ELEM. ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 21%: 193 students in 2018 compared to 152 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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