SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY PRESCHOOL

SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY PRESCHOOL is an elementary campus of one-room-style scale in DEXTER, Missouri, one of the schools within DEXTER R-XI, enrolling 92 students in grade pre-K. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY PRESCHOOL sits 71% leaner than that benchmark.

DEXTER R-XI runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,008 students. SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY PRESCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY PRESCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Stoddard County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Stoddard County put median household income runs about $57,957, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Stoddard County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,712 students), SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY PRESCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SOUTHWEST ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a town-center site.

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