ROCKY COMFORT ELEM.

ROCKY COMFORT ELEM. is an intimate K-5 school in ROCKY COMFORT, Missouri, run under MCDONALD CO. R-I. The school instructs 197 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 37% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

ROCKY COMFORT ELEM. is one of 10 schools operated by MCDONALD CO. R-I, a district that teaches 3,595 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ROCKY COMFORT ELEM. shows that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at ROCKY COMFORT ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against McDonald County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ROCKY COMFORT ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (McDonald County) shows that median household earnings sit near $52,375, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McDonald County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,867 students), of which ROCKY COMFORT ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is TRIWAY, roughly 4.8 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, ROCKY COMFORT ELEM. comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 5%: 187 students in 2018 compared to 197 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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