MIDWAY ELEM.

Located at 5801 E STATE RTE 2, in CLEVELAND, Missouri, MIDWAY ELEM. is a close-knit elementary campus that hosts 227 students (grades K through 6), overseen by MIDWAY R-I. Enrollment runs roughly 28% smaller than the state mean of about 315.

MIDWAY R-I runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 428 students. MIDWAY ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, MIDWAY ELEM. lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%); the rest looks like 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, MIDWAY ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -9.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cass County put median household income runs about $87,535, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. MIDWAY ELEM. is one of 44 public schools in Cass County (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students).

The closest other public school is MIDWAY 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. On composite proficiency, MIDWAY ELEM. comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MIDWAY ELEM. has held roughly steady, going from 222 students in 2018 to 227 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 97% to 85%.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.