Malta Bend Elementary School

Malta Bend Elementary School, an one-room-style primary school in Malta Bend, Missouri, overseen by MALTA BEND R-V, caters to 34 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 89% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

MALTA BEND R-V comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 67 students; Malta Bend Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Malta Bend Elementary School logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.0:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Malta Bend Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Saline County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Saline County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $57,931 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Malta Bend Elementary School is one of 20 public schools in Saline County (combined enrollment of about 3,543 students).

Malta Bend High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Malta Bend Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 36%: 53 students in 2018 compared to 34 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 6% to 0% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 7.6:1 in 2018 to 6.0:1 today.

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