LICKING ELEM.

LICKING ELEM., a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in LICKING, Missouri, overseen by LICKING R-VIII, teaches 416 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 32% bigger than typical.

LICKING R-VIII runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 813 students. LICKING ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On demographics, LICKING ELEM. lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Texas County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LICKING ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Texas County shows the typical household earns roughly $50,036 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Texas County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,571 students), LICKING ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

LICKING HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LICKING ELEM. ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. LICKING ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 416). Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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