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MID-BUCHANAN ELEM.
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MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. is an expansive K-5 school in FAUCETT, Missouri, operated by MID-BUCHANAN CO. R-V. The school teaches 476 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. sits 51% above that benchmark.
MID-BUCHANAN CO. R-V runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 891 students. MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Buchanan County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Buchanan County's rate of about 69%.
With demographic context factored in, MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.8%; actual is 74.1%, +23.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Buchanan County put median household earnings sit near $62,158, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Buchanan County runs 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,825 students), of which MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. is one.
The closest other public school is MID-BUCHANAN SR. HIGH, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 47.6%.
MID-BUCHANAN ELEM. operates from a rural location.
Over the past 7-year window. MID-BUCHANAN ELEM.'s enrollment has rose 14% since 2018, when it stood at 417 (now 476).
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