LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM.

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in FAYETTE, Missouri, LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM. works with 324 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within FAYETTE R-III.

Across the 3 schools in FAYETTE R-III (667 students total), LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM. lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Howard County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAURENCE J. DALY 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 37.8%, a residual of -12.6 points.

Across the wider county, Howard County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,938 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Howard County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,373 students), of which LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM. is one.

WM. N. CLARK MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM.. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. LAURENCE J. DALY ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 338 (now 324). Class-load math has tightened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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