OTTERVILLE ELEM.

OTTERVILLE ELEM. is a primary school of one-room-style scale in OTTERVILLE, Missouri, part of OTTERVILLE R-VI, enrolling 115 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so OTTERVILLE ELEM. sits 63% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in OTTERVILLE R-VI (217 students total), OTTERVILLE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, OTTERVILLE ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, OTTERVILLE ELEM. has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting OTTERVILLE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at OTTERVILLE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Cooper County's rate of about 75%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OTTERVILLE 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 46.3%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cooper County indicate median household income runs about $70,625, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Cooper County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,425 students), OTTERVILLE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

OTTERVILLE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, OTTERVILLE ELEM. comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OTTERVILLE ELEM. has edged down 3%, going from 118 students in 2018 to 115 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 99% to 93% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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