ROBINSON SCHOOL

ROBINSON SCHOOL is one of the high-enrollment elementary-level communitys in AURORA, Missouri, part of AURORA R-VIII, with 541 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 72% above the state mean of about 315.

ROBINSON SCHOOL is one of 4 schools operated by AURORA R-VIII, a district that hosts 1,843 students overall.

On the student-mix side, ROBINSON SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Lawrence County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lawrence County (around 55%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROBINSON SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lawrence County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,215, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Lawrence County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,271 students), of which ROBINSON SCHOOL is one.

AURORA HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBINSON SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. ROBINSON SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 98% since 2018, when it stood at 273 (now 541). Over the same period, the White share fell from 82% to 77%.

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