ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY

ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in ODESSA, Missouri, operated by ODESSA R-VII. Current enrollment sits at 429 students spanning grades 3 through 5. That puts it 36% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

ODESSA R-VII runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,039 students. ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 38% of students at ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -17.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Lafayette County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,612 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Lafayette County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,064 students), of which ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY is one.

ODESSA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ODESSA UPPER ELEMENTARY has decreased 12%, going from 486 students in 2018 to 429 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 96% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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