LEE HUNTER ELEM.

LEE HUNTER ELEM. operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in SIKESTON, Missouri, run under SIKESTON R-6. Current enrollment sits at 369 students spanning grades 1 through 4.

Within SIKESTON R-6, which oversees 7 schools and 3,277 students, LEE HUNTER ELEM. is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEE HUNTER ELEM. lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 31% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, LEE HUNTER ELEM. has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting LEE HUNTER ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at LEE HUNTER ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Scott County's rate of about 78%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEE HUNTER ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 54.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Scott County put median household earnings sit near $62,782, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Scott County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students), of which LEE HUNTER ELEM. is one.

SIKESTON HOPE CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LEE HUNTER ELEM. comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 419 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025.

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