HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM.

HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM. is one of the minimally staffed primary schools in HARDIN, Missouri, one of the schools within HARDIN-CENTRAL C-2, with 110 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 65% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 2 schools in HARDIN-CENTRAL C-2 (205 students total), HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM. records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%).

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 41% of students at HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Across the wider county, Ray County reports that median household income runs about $74,573, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM. is one of 12 public schools in Ray County (combined enrollment of about 3,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: HARDIN-CENTRAL HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM. ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. HARDIN-CENTRAL ELEM.'s enrollment has edged up 31% since 2018, when it stood at 84 (now 110). Class-load math has loosened: from 7.5:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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