NAYLOR ELEM.

NAYLOR ELEM. is an elementary school of compact scale in NAYLOR, Missouri, part of NAYLOR R-II, works with 205 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 35% leaner than the state mean of about 315.

Within NAYLOR R-II, which oversees 2 schools and 360 students, NAYLOR ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, NAYLOR ELEM. shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, NAYLOR ELEM. has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ripley County runs at roughly 93%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NAYLOR ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 53.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Ripley County indicate the typical household earns roughly $42,037 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ripley County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,118 students), NAYLOR ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Naylor High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 4 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), NAYLOR ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 220 students in 2018 compared to 205 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for NAYLOR ELEM. typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.