TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE

TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE operates as a compact elementary school in FESTUS, Missouri, run under JEFFERSON CO. R-VII. Current enrollment sits at 230 students spanning grades 3 through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Within JEFFERSON CO. R-VII, which oversees 5 schools and 1,036 students, TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 64.8%.

Across the wider county, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Jefferson County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE is one campus in the mix.

JEFFERSON R-VII PRESCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TELEGRAPH INTERMEDIATE at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 53.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 231 students in 2018 compared to 230 in 2025.

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