PORTAGEVILLE ELEM.

Set in PORTAGEVILLE, Missouri, PORTAGEVILLE ELEM. is a reasonably sized K-5 school, operated by PORTAGEVILLE. It works with 311 students across grades pre-K through 5.

PORTAGEVILLE runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 671 students. PORTAGEVILLE ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PORTAGEVILLE ELEM. records that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 24% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, New Madrid County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting PORTAGEVILLE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, PORTAGEVILLE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.3%.

In the broader community, census data for New Madrid County shows the typical household earns roughly $51,881 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, New Madrid County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,664 students), of which PORTAGEVILLE ELEM. is one.

PORTAGEVILLE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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, PORTAGEVILLE ELEM. comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the PORTAGEVILLE ELEM. community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.