MOREAU HEIGHTS ELEM.

MOREAU HEIGHTS ELEM. is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, overseen by JEFFERSON CITY, with 324 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 16 schools in JEFFERSON CITY (8,491 students total), MOREAU HEIGHTS ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, MOREAU HEIGHTS ELEM. reports that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 14% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at MOREAU HEIGHTS ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cole County (around 47%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, MOREAU HEIGHTS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +12.1 points.

Across the wider county, Cole County reports that median household income runs about $74,876, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MOREAU HEIGHTS ELEM. is one of 28 public schools in Cole County (combined enrollment of about 10,312 students).

Nearest neighbor: JEFFERSON CITY HIGH, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOREAU HEIGHTS ELEM. ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 423 students in 2018 compared to 324 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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