MOUNTAIN GROVE ELEM.

As a sizable K-5 school in MOUNTAIN GROVE, Missouri, MOUNTAIN GROVE ELEM. educates 658 students from grades pre-K through 4, one of the schools within MOUNTAIN GROVE R-III. That puts it 109% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

MOUNTAIN GROVE ELEM. is one of 4 schools operated by MOUNTAIN GROVE R-III, a district that educates 1,543 students overall.

Demographically, MOUNTAIN GROVE ELEM. shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wright County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, MOUNTAIN GROVE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Across the wider county, Wright County reports that median household earnings sit near $47,909, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wright County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,155 students), MOUNTAIN GROVE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MOUNTAIN GROVE HIGH, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MOUNTAIN GROVE ELEM. at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 46.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MOUNTAIN GROVE ELEM. has expanded 4%, going from 632 students in 2018 to 658 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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