MARK TWAIN ELEM.

MARK TWAIN ELEM. operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, part of SPRINGFIELD R-XII. Current enrollment sits at 356 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 24,450 students. MARK TWAIN ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MARK TWAIN ELEM. lists that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 13% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Greene County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MARK TWAIN ELEM. has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 69% of students at MARK TWAIN ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Greene County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, MARK TWAIN ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -8.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Greene County put the typical household earns roughly $61,479 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Greene County runs 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), of which MARK TWAIN ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: HOLLAND ELEM., around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARK TWAIN ELEM.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARK TWAIN ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARK TWAIN ELEM. has edged down 9%, going from 393 students in 2018 to 356 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 65% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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