NORBORNE ELEM.
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2023-24 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 48 and 48.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 35 points, placing it in Missouri's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NORBORNE ELEM.
NORBORNE ELEM. operates as a rural-scale primary school in NORBORNE, Missouri, run under NORBORNE R-VIII. Current enrollment sits at 71 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so NORBORNE ELEM. sits 77% below that benchmark.
Across the 2 schools in NORBORNE R-VIII (151 students total), NORBORNE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, NORBORNE ELEM. lists that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting NORBORNE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORBORNE ELEM. ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.3%; NORBORNE ELEM. posts 84.9%, +34.6 points above that line.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Carroll County put the typical household earns roughly $62,154 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Carroll County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,268 students), of which NORBORNE ELEM. is one.
Nearest neighbor: NORBORNE HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORBORNE ELEM. at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 44.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. NORBORNE ELEM.'s enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 78 (now 71). Class-load math has tightened: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 6.3:1 in 2025.
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