HOLLISTER ELEM.

HOLLISTER ELEM. is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in HOLLISTER, Missouri, overseen by HOLLISTER R-V, instructing 367 students in grades 2 through 5.

Within HOLLISTER R-V, which oversees 4 schools and 1,369 students, HOLLISTER ELEM. is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HOLLISTER ELEM. lists that White students make up the majority at 75%. The remainder is composed of 17% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Taney County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting HOLLISTER ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, HOLLISTER ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of -10.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Taney County) logs that median household income runs about $56,497, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Taney County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,946 students), of which HOLLISTER ELEM. is one.

HOLLISTER EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOLLISTER ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 50.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. HOLLISTER ELEM.'s enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 360 (now 367). White enrollment moved from 85% to 75% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.