JASPER CO. ELEM.

As a close-knit primary school in JASPER, Missouri, JASPER CO. ELEM. teaches 241 students from grades K through 6, operated by JASPER CO. R-V. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 2 schools in JASPER CO. R-V (454 students total), JASPER CO. ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, JASPER CO. ELEM. lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, JASPER CO. ELEM. records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jasper County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JASPER CO. ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 48.6%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jasper County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,694 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. JASPER CO. ELEM. is one of 49 public schools in Jasper County (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students).

Jasper Co. High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JASPER CO. ELEM. at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.1%.

JASPER CO. ELEM. operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. JASPER CO. ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 268 (now 241). Class-load math has tightened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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