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HANNIBAL MIDDLE
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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 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 33 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 58 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HANNIBAL MIDDLE
HANNIBAL MIDDLE is a middle school of reasonably sized scale in HANNIBAL, Missouri, operated by HANNIBAL 60, hosting 674 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% larger than the state mean of about 461.
HANNIBAL 60 comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,366 students; HANNIBAL MIDDLE is among them.
In terms of who attends, HANNIBAL MIDDLE shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 60% of students at HANNIBAL MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, HANNIBAL MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 44.6%, a residual of -5.5 points.
In the broader community, Marion County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,903 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Marion County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,724 students), of which HANNIBAL MIDDLE is one.
HANNIBAL SR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HANNIBAL MIDDLE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HANNIBAL MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.2%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Trend over the last 7 years. HANNIBAL MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 796 (now 674). Class-load math has fell: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.
On allk12, the feed for HANNIBAL MIDDLE typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Marion County at a glance
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