NORTH NODAWAY ELEM.

NORTH NODAWAY ELEM. is one of the minimally staffed primary schools in PICKERING, Missouri, part of NORTH NODAWAY CO. R-VI, with 86 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so NORTH NODAWAY ELEM. sits 73% below that benchmark.

NORTH NODAWAY CO. R-VI comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 186 students; NORTH NODAWAY ELEM. is among them.

On demographics, NORTH NODAWAY ELEM. lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (100%).

On the resource side, On paper, NORTH NODAWAY ELEM. has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Nodaway County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTH NODAWAY 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 46.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Nodaway County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,315, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nodaway County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,410 students), of which NORTH NODAWAY ELEM. is one.

NORTH NODAWAY JR.-SR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, NORTH NODAWAY ELEM. comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. NORTH NODAWAY ELEM.'s enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 106 (now 86). Class-load math has rose: from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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