LYON ELEMENTARY

LYON ELEMENTARY operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in REPUBLIC, Missouri, one of the schools within REPUBLIC R-III. Current enrollment sits at 430 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 37% larger than typical.

LYON ELEMENTARY is one of 8 schools operated by REPUBLIC R-III, a district that serves 5,318 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LYON ELEMENTARY logs that nearly all students (81%) are White; the rest is composed of 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LYON ELEMENTARY has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at LYON ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, LYON ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 56.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,479, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. LYON ELEMENTARY is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).

The closest other public school is SWEENY ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around LYON ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, LYON ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 437 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 81% across the same window.

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