MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL

MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school of very small scale in PATTON, Missouri, overseen by MEADOW HEIGHTS R-II, works with 98 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 79% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in MEADOW HEIGHTS R-II (489 students total), MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 51% of students at MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bollinger County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,814 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Bollinger County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,725 students), of which MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is MEADOW HEIGHTS HIGH, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, MEADOW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

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