PERSHING ELEM.

Located at 2120 VENTURA, in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, PERSHING ELEM. is a small primary school that works with 142 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within SPRINGFIELD R-XII. Enrollment runs roughly 55% leaner than the state mean of about 315.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII comprises 54 schools with combined enrollment of 24,450 students; PERSHING ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, PERSHING ELEM. shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 4% Asian.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PERSHING ELEM. has 10 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. Roughly 54% of students at PERSHING ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, PERSHING ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 46.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,479, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. PERSHING ELEM. is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).

PERSHING MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PERSHING ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PERSHING ELEM. at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 56.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. PERSHING ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 186 (now 142). Hispanic enrollment moved from 3% to 8% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for PERSHING ELEM. typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.