OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY

OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY operates as a compact elementary school in OSAGE BEACH, Missouri, run under CAMDENTON R-III. Current enrollment sits at 219 students spanning grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 30% smaller than the state mean of about 315.

Within CAMDENTON R-III, which oversees 8 schools and 3,835 students, OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Camden County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.5%; this one comes in at 12.5%, -38.0 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Camden County indicate median household income runs about $66,387, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY is one of 16 public schools in Camden County (combined enrollment of about 4,831 students).

The closest other public school is OSAGE MIDDLE, roughly 4.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 60.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. OSAGE BEACH ELEMENTARY's enrollment has decreased 29% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 219). Over the same period, the White share edged up from 74% to 82%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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