OAK HILL ELEM.
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About OAK HILL ELEM.
Located at 6200 S HWY 19, in SALEM, Missouri, OAK HILL ELEM. is a close-knit elementary campus that serves 149 students (grades K through 8), operated by OAK HILL R-I. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so OAK HILL ELEM. sits 53% smaller than that benchmark.
OAK HILL ELEM. sits inside OAK HILL R-I, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
Looking at the student body, OAK HILL ELEM. lists that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 64% of students at OAK HILL ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dent County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, OAK HILL ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 57.7%, a residual of +7.7 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Dent County put the typical household earns roughly $56,312 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. OAK HILL ELEM. is one of 9 public schools in Dent County (combined enrollment of about 2,169 students).
SALEM UPPER ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OAK HILL ELEM. at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 43.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. OAK HILL ELEM.'s enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 147 (now 149).
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