OSBORN ELEM.

OSBORN ELEM. operates as a tiny primary school in OSBORN, Missouri, one of the schools within OSBORN R-O. Current enrollment sits at 64 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so OSBORN ELEM. sits 80% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in OSBORN R-O (127 students total), OSBORN ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, OSBORN ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (100%). That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

In terms of school funding signals, OSBORN ELEM. lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, OSBORN ELEM. sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.7%; actual is 29.2%, a gap of -21.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for DeKalb County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,826, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. OSBORN ELEM. is one of 10 public schools in DeKalb County (combined enrollment of about 1,028 students).

The closest other public school is OSBORN HIGH, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OSBORN ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.7%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. OSBORN ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 56 (now 64). The White share of enrollment grew from 89% to 100% over that span.

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