RAY MILLER ELEM.

RAY MILLER ELEM. is an elementary campus of large scale in KIRKSVILLE, Missouri, overseen by KIRKSVILLE R-III, works with 530 students in grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 68% larger than typical.

Across the 4 schools in KIRKSVILLE R-III (2,374 students total), RAY MILLER ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, RAY MILLER ELEM. records that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 12% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Adair County (around 47%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RAY MILLER ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -17.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Adair County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,536 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. RAY MILLER ELEM. is one of 9 public schools in Adair County (combined enrollment of about 2,724 students).

KIRKSVILLE SR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RAY MILLER ELEM. comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 568 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 87% to 78%.

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