OAK RIDGE ELEM.

OAK RIDGE ELEM. is a cozy elementary school in OAK RIDGE, Missouri, run under OAK RIDGE R-VI. The school serves 182 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 315.

OAK RIDGE R-VI comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 365 students; OAK RIDGE ELEM. is among them.

Looking at the student body, OAK RIDGE ELEM. lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%). That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, OAK RIDGE ELEM. has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cape Girardeau County (around 62%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, OAK RIDGE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of +8.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cape Girardeau County) reports that median household income runs about $68,464, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. OAK RIDGE ELEM. is one of 27 public schools in Cape Girardeau County (combined enrollment of about 11,025 students).

The closest other public school is OAK RIDGE HIGH, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, OAK RIDGE ELEM. comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. OAK RIDGE ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 214 (now 182). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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