LITTLE STINGERS PRESCHOOL

LITTLE STINGERS PRESCHOOL is one of the very small K-5 schools in FAIR PLAY, Missouri, run under FAIR PLAY R-II, with 19 students on its rolls from grade pre-K. That puts it 94% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

FAIR PLAY R-II runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 350 students. LITTLE STINGERS PRESCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LITTLE STINGERS PRESCHOOL records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 5% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at LITTLE STINGERS PRESCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Polk County's rate of about 55%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,647, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Polk County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,965 students), of which LITTLE STINGERS PRESCHOOL is one.

FAIR PLAY HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around LITTLE STINGERS PRESCHOOL.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.