MEADVILLE ELEM.
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 25 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About 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.
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