JEFFERSON ELEM.

JEFFERSON ELEM. is an intimate K-5 school in JOPLIN, Missouri, overseen by JOPLIN SCHOOLS. The school teaches 218 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 315.

JEFFERSON ELEM. is one of 15 schools operated by JOPLIN SCHOOLS, a district that teaches 7,873 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JEFFERSON ELEM. logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 80% of students at JEFFERSON ELEM. qualify 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 above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, JEFFERSON ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +17.4 points.

Around the school, Jasper County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,694 per year, 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, Jasper County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students), of which JEFFERSON ELEM. is one.

NORTH MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JEFFERSON ELEM. at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 51.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. JEFFERSON ELEM.'s enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 242 (now 218). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 83% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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