LESLIE BELL ELEM.

LESLIE BELL ELEM., a mid-tier elementary-level community in LEXINGTON, Missouri, overseen by LEXINGTON R-V, enrolls 339 students, covering grades pre-K through 4.

LESLIE BELL ELEM. is one of 3 schools operated by LEXINGTON R-V, a district that works with 893 students overall.

In terms of who attends, LESLIE BELL ELEM. lists that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder consists of 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black.

On the resource side, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting LESLIE BELL ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 61% of students at LESLIE BELL ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lafayette County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LESLIE BELL ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 61.8%, a residual of +11.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lafayette County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,612 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. LESLIE BELL ELEM. is one of 19 public schools in Lafayette County (combined enrollment of about 5,064 students).

Nearest neighbor: LEXINGTON HIGH, around 0.6 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LESLIE BELL ELEM. comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

LESLIE BELL ELEM. operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LESLIE BELL ELEM. has shrank 24%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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