JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM.

JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM. is one of the close-knit elementary campuss in COLUMBIA, Missouri, operated by COLUMBIA 93, with 227 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

COLUMBIA 93 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 18,640 students. JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM. is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM. lists that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 14% multiracial, 10% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM. records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Boone County's rate of about 38%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM. ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 51.0%; JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM. posts 79.2%, +28.2 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,758 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Boone County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

DAVID H. HICKMAN HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 63.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. JOHN RIDGEWAY ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 240 (now 227). White enrollment moved from 74% to 69% across the same window.

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