OWENSVILLE ELEM.

Set in OWENSVILLE, Missouri, OWENSVILLE ELEM. is a big elementary campus, operated by GASCONADE CO. R-II. It enrolls 539 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 71% larger than the state mean of about 315.

GASCONADE CO. R-II runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,771 students. OWENSVILLE ELEM. is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OWENSVILLE ELEM. shows that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Gasconade County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, OWENSVILLE ELEM. has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 48% of students are eligible 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, OWENSVILLE ELEM. sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.4%; actual is 25.6%, a gap of -24.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Gasconade County put the typical household earns roughly $64,232 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Gasconade County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,494 students), OWENSVILLE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

OWENSVILLE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around OWENSVILLE ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OWENSVILLE ELEM. at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. OWENSVILLE ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 539). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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