MEADVILLE ELEM.

MEADVILLE ELEM. is an elementary school of minimally staffed scale in MEADVILLE, Missouri, operated by MEADVILLE R-IV, works with 114 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 64% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Within MEADVILLE R-IV, which oversees 2 schools and 215 students, MEADVILLE ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Demographically, MEADVILLE ELEM. logs that nearly all students (99%) are White.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at MEADVILLE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Linn County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MEADVILLE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of -5.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Linn County) shows that median household earnings sit near $61,635, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MEADVILLE ELEM. is one of 13 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 2,070 students).

MEADVILLE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, MEADVILLE ELEM. comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.7%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 16%: 136 students in 2018 compared to 114 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for MEADVILLE ELEM. typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.