NORWOOD ELEM.

Located at 675 N HAWK AVE, in NORWOOD, Missouri, NORWOOD ELEM. is a small K-5 school that teaches 126 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of NORWOOD R-I. Enrollment runs roughly 60% smaller than the state mean of about 315.

NORWOOD R-I runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 305 students. NORWOOD ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, NORWOOD ELEM. shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting NORWOOD ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, NORWOOD ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 52.3%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Wright County shows median household income runs about $47,909, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wright County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,155 students), of which NORWOOD ELEM. is one.

NORWOOD HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, NORWOOD ELEM. comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 165 students in 2018 compared to 126 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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