OSAGE MIDDLE

OSAGE MIDDLE operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in OSAGE BEACH, Missouri, part of SCHOOL OF THE OSAGE. Current enrollment sits at 479 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

SCHOOL OF THE OSAGE runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,006 students. OSAGE MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, OSAGE MIDDLE shows that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at OSAGE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OSAGE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Miller County put median household earnings sit near $56,736, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. OSAGE MIDDLE is one of 16 public schools in Miller County (combined enrollment of about 5,092 students).

OSAGE UPPER ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OSAGE MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.0%.

OSAGE MIDDLE operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 8%: 443 students in 2018 compared to 479 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 87% across the same window.

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