HUMANSVILLE ELEM.

HUMANSVILLE ELEM. is a low-enrollment elementary school in HUMANSVILLE, Missouri, operated by HUMANSVILLE R-IV. The school enrolls 156 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so HUMANSVILLE ELEM. sits 50% below that benchmark.

HUMANSVILLE R-IV comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 345 students; HUMANSVILLE ELEM. is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HUMANSVILLE ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest breaks down as 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Polk County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting HUMANSVILLE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at HUMANSVILLE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Polk County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HUMANSVILLE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Around the school, Polk County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,647, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Polk County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,965 students), of which HUMANSVILLE ELEM. is one.

HUMANSVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HUMANSVILLE ELEM. at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 54.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. HUMANSVILLE ELEM.'s enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 177 (now 156). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 98% to 92%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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