ROBBERSON ELEM.

ROBBERSON ELEM., a close-knit K-5 school in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, one of the schools within SPRINGFIELD R-XII, hosts 165 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so ROBBERSON ELEM. sits 48% leaner than that benchmark.

ROBBERSON ELEM. is one of 54 schools operated by SPRINGFIELD R-XII, a district that serves 24,450 students overall.

On demographics, ROBBERSON ELEM. records that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest looks like 18% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, ROBBERSON ELEM. has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at ROBBERSON ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ROBBERSON ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 61.7%, a residual of +12.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household income runs about $61,479, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Greene County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), ROBBERSON ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

FREMONT ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROBBERSON ELEM.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBBERSON ELEM. ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 32.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at ROBBERSON ELEM. has edged down 26%, going from 222 students in 2018 to 165 in 2024. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 6% to 18% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2024.

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