REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE

Located at 175 ELEMENTARY RD, in REEDS SPRING, Missouri, REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE is a tight-knit 6-8 campus that teaches 254 students (grades 5 through 6), operated by REEDS SPRING R-IV. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE sits 45% below that benchmark.

REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE is one of 5 schools operated by REEDS SPRING R-IV, a district that caters to 1,718 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE records that nearly all students (85%) are White. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 60% of students at REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Stone County indicate median household income runs about $63,520, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE is one of 16 public schools in Stone County (combined enrollment of about 3,406 students).

REEDS SPRING PRIMARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, REEDS SPRING INTERMEDIATE comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 91% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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