SCOTT CO. ELEM.

SCOTT CO. ELEM. is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in BENTON, Missouri, overseen by SCOTT CO. R-IV, with 410 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 315.

SCOTT CO. R-IV comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 902 students; SCOTT CO. ELEM. is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SCOTT CO. ELEM. shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, On paper, SCOTT CO. ELEM. has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SCOTT CO. ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Scott County) reports that median household earnings sit near $62,782, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Scott County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students), SCOTT CO. ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

THOMAS W. KELLY HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SCOTT CO. ELEM.. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCOTT CO. ELEM. ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SCOTT CO. ELEM.'s enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 410).

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