SOUTH ELEM.

SOUTH ELEM. is a well-populated elementary campus in OZARK, Missouri, run under OZARK R-VI. The school caters to 505 students in grades K through 4. That puts it 60% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 8 schools in OZARK R-VI (5,959 students total), SOUTH ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SOUTH ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school shows 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

On the income-and-resources front, SOUTH ELEM. lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Christian County's rate of about 33%.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of +15.1 points.

In the area at large, Christian County reports that median household earnings sit near $83,437, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Christian County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,175 students), SOUTH ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: OZARK TIGERPAW EARLY CHILD CTR, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTH ELEM. at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 49.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. SOUTH ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 38% since 2018, when it stood at 816 (now 505). White enrollment moved from 88% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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