SOUTHEAST ELEM.

As a close-knit elementary campus in SIKESTON, Missouri, SOUTHEAST ELEM. enrolls 250 students from grades 1 through 4, one of the schools within SIKESTON R-6. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

SIKESTON R-6 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,277 students. SOUTHEAST ELEM. is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUTHEAST ELEM. shows that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 35% Black, 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at SOUTHEAST ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Scott County (around 78%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHEAST ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.3%.

Around the school, census data for Scott County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,782 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Scott County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students), of which SOUTHEAST ELEM. is one.

NEW DAWN SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTHEAST ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOUTHEAST ELEM. at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 53.7%.

SOUTHEAST ELEM. operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. SOUTHEAST ELEM.'s enrollment has fell 24% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 250). Class-load math has tightened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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