PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY

Located at 1911 PRAIRIE DELL RD, in UNION, Missouri, PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY is a sizable K-5 school that enrolls 495 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by UNION R-XI. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 57% larger than typical.

PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY is one of 5 schools operated by UNION R-XI, a district that educates 3,120 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Franklin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.3%; actual is 30.1%, a gap of -20.2 points.

Around the school, Franklin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,165 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY is one of 41 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 15,025 students).

Nearest neighbor: CENTRAL ELEM., around 2.3 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 44.1%.

PRAIRIE DELL ELEMENTARY operates from a town-based location.

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