PRAIRIE HOME ELEM.

PRAIRIE HOME ELEM., a tiny K-5 school in PRAIRIE HOME, Missouri, one of the schools within PRAIRIE HOME R-V, caters to 63 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so PRAIRIE HOME ELEM. sits 80% smaller than that benchmark.

PRAIRIE HOME R-V runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 153 students. PRAIRIE HOME ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PRAIRIE HOME ELEM. reports that nearly all students (95%) are White. Other groups include 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, PRAIRIE HOME ELEM. has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cooper County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PRAIRIE HOME 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 55.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cooper County put median household income runs about $70,625, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. PRAIRIE HOME ELEM. is one of 17 public schools in Cooper County (combined enrollment of about 2,425 students).

PRAIRIE HOME HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PRAIRIE HOME ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 51.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 25%: 84 students in 2018 compared to 63 in 2025.

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