PALMYRA MIDDLE

PALMYRA MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of compact scale in PALMYRA, Missouri, run under PALMYRA R-I, instructing 343 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% leaner than the state mean of about 461.

Across the 3 schools in PALMYRA R-I (1,126 students total), PALMYRA MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PALMYRA MIDDLE lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial. Compared to Marion County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, PALMYRA MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 41.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Marion County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,903 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. PALMYRA MIDDLE is one of 15 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 4,724 students).

The closest other public school is PALMYRA ELEM., roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PALMYRA MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 379 students in 2018 compared to 343 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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