LEESVILLE ELEM.

Located at 8229 E HIGHWAY 7, in CLINTON, Missouri, LEESVILLE ELEM. is a tiny elementary school that hosts 91 students (grades pre-K through 8), run under LEESVILLE R-IX. Enrollment runs roughly 71% below the state mean of about 315.

LEESVILLE R-IX is the operating authority for LEESVILLE ELEM., handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, LEESVILLE ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting LEESVILLE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at LEESVILLE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Henry County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEESVILLE 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 49.4%; LEESVILLE ELEM. posts 85.5%, +36.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Henry County put median household earnings sit near $57,926, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Henry County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,878 students), of which LEESVILLE ELEM. is one.

HENRY ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 9.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, LEESVILLE ELEM. comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. LEESVILLE ELEM.'s enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 102 (now 91). White enrollment moved from 94% to 87% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 6.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.