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Enrollment
619
Elementary
DISTRICT 399 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLUMBIA 93·NCES 290100002770
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM.
201 PARK DEVILLE, COLUMBIA, MO 65203 · (573) 214-3570 · Boone County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL619 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Missouri public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Missouri public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
211 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 54%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (113).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 52% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
55.5%
MO avg 44.9% . +7.1pp since 2021
Math
52.0%
MO avg 43.8% . +2.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 32.1% | 23.4% | 32.7% | 11.7% |
| Math | 25.0% | 27.0% | 22.7% | 25.0% |
Share of tested students at each MAP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
MAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.5% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 49.9% |
| 2022-23 | 51.5% | 51.7% |
| 2021-22 | 48.4% | 50.0% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.1%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM.
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM.'s state test result (52.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. this school | 619 | 34.1% | 52.8% |
| ROCK BRIDGE ELEM. COLUMBIA | 556 | 32.6% | 50.0% |
| HARVEST RIDGE ELEM. ST CHARLES | 572 | 23.1% | 52.9% |
| CRAIG ELEM. ST LOUIS | 423 | 29.1% | 51.2% |
| BEULAH RALPH ELEMENTARY Columbia | 656 | 19.7% | 57.7% |
| HANNA WOODS ELEM. BALLWIN | 360 | 30.3% | 49.2% |
Matched among Missouri elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Missouri | In Boone County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #253 of 1,002 | #8 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #288 of 1,019 ▲ 51 | #9 of 26 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #226 of 1,018 ▲ 34 | #8 of 26 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.6pp | #301 of 943 | #12 of 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 619 | #57 of 1,294 | #2 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #862 of 950 | #27 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #99 of 953 | #10 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.1% | #894 of 1,165 | #15 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #423 of 684 | #9 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
619
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-12% since 2010-11, when it was 702
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 619 | 40 | 15.5:1 | 34% (211) |
| 2023-24 | 638 | 39.4 | 16.2:1 | 37% (239) |
| 2022-23 | 634 | 40 | 15.8:1 | 35% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 620 | 38 | 16.3:1 | 39% (243) |
| 2017-18 | 693 | 43.6 | 15.9:1 | 31% (218) |
| 2015-16 | 723 | 42 | 17.2:1 | 29% (207) |
| 2010-11 | 702 | 39 | 18.0:1 | 23% (162) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM..
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (693 to 619); teachers down 8% (43.6 to 40).
About MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM.
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. is a public elementary school in COLUMBIA, Missouri. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 619 students enrolled. It has 97% more students than the average for elementary schools in Missouri (about 315).
COLUMBIA 93 enrolls 18,640 students, and its 34 schools include MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM..
More than half of enrollment at MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. is White: 52%. Other groups include 20% Black, 11% multiracial, 11% Asian, and 6% Hispanic. The county population is about 77% White. The diversity index for MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. totals 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.5:1. Compared with the 12.4:1 average for elementary schools in Missouri, this school's ratio is higher. Federal data show 34% of students (211) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 77% of Missouri public elementary schools.
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. scores 52.8% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 47.1%.
In Boone County, home to about 188,043 people, median household income comes to about $72,758, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. shares Boone County with 57 other public schools.
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. is about 0.2 miles from SMITHTON MIDDLE, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 52.8% against a local average of 64.6%.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. had 620 students in 2020-21 and 619 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
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Boone County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
188,043
Census ACS
Median income
$72,758
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
58
24,547 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in COLUMBIA 93
- DAVID H. HICKMAN HIGHHigh · 2,007 students
- ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGHHigh · 1,997 students
- MURIEL BATTLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,492 students
- ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOLMiddle · 736 students
- BEULAH RALPH ELEMENTARYElementary · 656 students
- SMITHTON MIDDLEMiddle · 605 students
Other schools in COLUMBIA
- DAVID H. HICKMAN HIGHHigh · 2,007 students
- ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGHHigh · 1,997 students
- MURIEL BATTLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,492 students
- ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOLMiddle · 736 students
- BEULAH RALPH ELEMENTARYElementary · 656 students
- SMITHTON MIDDLEMiddle · 605 students
Nearby schools
- SMITHTON MIDDLE0.2 mi · 605
- FAIRVIEW ELEM.1.0 mi · 471
- WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 553
- RUSSELL BLVD. ELEM.1.4 mi · 500
- WEST BLVD. ELEM.1.8 mi · 327
- ULYSSES S. GRANT ELEM.2.6 mi · 296
Frequently asked questions
About MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM.What is the total enrollment at MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM.?
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. enrolls approximately 619 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. serve?
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM.?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. is approximately 15.5:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM.?
At MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM., the student body is approximately 52% White, 6% Hispanic, 20% Black, 11% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. in?
MARY PAXTON KEELEY ELEM. is part of COLUMBIA 93.
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