NIKE ELEM.

NIKE ELEM., a low-enrollment primary school in CATAWISSA, Missouri, run under MERAMEC VALLEY R-III, hosts 212 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 33% leaner than typical.

Across the 9 schools in MERAMEC VALLEY R-III (3,131 students total), NIKE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, NIKE ELEM. lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 52% of students at NIKE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, NIKE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Franklin County) logs that median household earnings sit near $73,165, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Franklin County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,025 students), NIKE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

ROBERTSVILLE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NIKE ELEM. at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.7%.

NIKE ELEM. operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. NIKE ELEM.'s enrollment has expanded 72% since 2018, when it stood at 123 (now 212).

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