KELLY A BURLISON MIDDLE SCHOOL

KELLY A BURLISON MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in FREDERICKTOWN, Missouri, overseen by FREDERICKTOWN R-I. Current enrollment sits at 433 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

KELLY A BURLISON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by FREDERICKTOWN R-I, a district that enrolls 1,883 students overall.

On the student-mix side, KELLY A BURLISON MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KELLY A BURLISON MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Madison County) shows that median household earnings sit near $54,434, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. KELLY A BURLISON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 6 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 2,011 students).

FREDERICKTOWN HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, KELLY A BURLISON MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KELLY A BURLISON MIDDLE SCHOOL has showed little movement, going from 444 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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