SOUTHWEST ELEM.

Set in WASHBURN, Missouri, SOUTHWEST ELEM. is a medium-sized K-5 school, run under SOUTHWEST R-V. It educates 349 students across grades pre-K through 4.

SOUTHWEST ELEM. is one of 3 schools operated by SOUTHWEST R-V, a district that serves 771 students overall.

On demographics, SOUTHWEST ELEM. shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Barry County (around 62%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTHWEST ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.9%; this one delivers 63.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Barry County) records that the typical household earns roughly $58,346 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Barry County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,974 students), of which SOUTHWEST ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHWEST HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUTHWEST ELEM. comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

SOUTHWEST ELEM. operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 19%: 294 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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