SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM.

Located at 809 S HENRY CLAY BLVD, in ASHLAND, Missouri, SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM. is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that serves 282 students (grades 3 through 4), one of the schools within SOUTHERN BOONE CO. R-I.

SOUTHERN BOONE CO. R-I comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,971 students; SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM. is among them.

Demographically, SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, On paper, SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM. has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 14% 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, Boone County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.5%.

In the area at large, census data for Boone County shows median household income runs about $72,758, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Boone County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

SOUTHERN BOONE PRIMARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM.. On composite proficiency, SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM. comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

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

Five-year trend. SOUTHERN BOONE ELEM.'s enrollment has declined 28% since 2018, when it stood at 394 (now 282). Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.