MEADOW HEIGHTS ELEM.

MEADOW HEIGHTS ELEM. is one of the cozy elementary campuss in PATTON, Missouri, one of the schools within MEADOW HEIGHTS R-II, with 233 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 315.

MEADOW HEIGHTS R-II runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 489 students. MEADOW HEIGHTS ELEM. is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, MEADOW HEIGHTS ELEM. records that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Bollinger County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, MEADOW HEIGHTS ELEM. shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, MEADOW HEIGHTS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bollinger County put the typical household earns roughly $63,814 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. MEADOW HEIGHTS ELEM. is one of 10 public schools in Bollinger County (combined enrollment of about 1,725 students).

Nearest neighbor: MEADOW HEIGHTS HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MEADOW HEIGHTS ELEM. at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 334 students in 2018 compared to 233 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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