HARTVILLE ELEM.

HARTVILLE ELEM. is one of the small elementary schools in HARTVILLE, Missouri, operated by HARTVILLE R-II, with 208 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 315.

Within HARTVILLE R-II, which oversees 4 schools and 640 students, HARTVILLE ELEM. is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, HARTVILLE ELEM. logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting HARTVILLE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at HARTVILLE 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, HARTVILLE ELEM. sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.3%; actual is 70.7%, +20.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wright County) logs that median household earnings sit near $47,909, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Wright County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,155 students), of which HARTVILLE ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hartville Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARTVILLE ELEM. at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 59.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. HARTVILLE ELEM.'s enrollment has decreased 31% since 2018, when it stood at 300 (now 208). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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