HOLDEN ELEM.

HOLDEN ELEM. operates as a substantial elementary-level community in HOLDEN, Missouri, one of the schools within HOLDEN R-III. Current enrollment sits at 540 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 71% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

HOLDEN ELEM. is one of 3 schools operated by HOLDEN R-III, a district that works with 1,232 students overall.

Demographically, HOLDEN ELEM. records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest consists of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Johnson County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at HOLDEN ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Johnson County (around 41%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOLDEN ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 44.4%.

Across the wider county, Johnson County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,272, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Johnson County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,058 students), of which HOLDEN ELEM. is one.

HOLDEN HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around HOLDEN ELEM.. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOLDEN ELEM. ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.2%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. HOLDEN ELEM.'s enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 537 (now 540).

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for HOLDEN ELEM. typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.