LUTIE ELEM.

LUTIE ELEM. operates as an one-room-style primary school in THEODOSIA, Missouri, operated by LUTIE R-VI. Current enrollment sits at 48 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 85% below the state mean of about 315.

Across the 2 schools in LUTIE R-VI (106 students total), LUTIE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, LUTIE ELEM. lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, LUTIE ELEM. has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 4.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at LUTIE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Ozark County's rate of about 69%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LUTIE 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 34.0%, a residual of -15.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ozark County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $44,163 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Ozark County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,458 students), LUTIE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LUTIE HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LUTIE ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 31%: 70 students in 2018 compared to 48 in 2025. The White share of enrollment increased from 90% to 96% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 5.9:1 in 2018 to 4.0:1 in 2025.

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