WALNUT GROVE ELEM.

WALNUT GROVE ELEM. is an elementary campus of tight-knit scale in WALNUT GROVE, Missouri, overseen by WALNUT GROVE R-V, serveing 144 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 54% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 2 schools in WALNUT GROVE R-V (289 students total), WALNUT GROVE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, WALNUT GROVE ELEM. records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WALNUT GROVE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Greene County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,479 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Greene County runs 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), of which WALNUT GROVE ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: WALNUT GROVE HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WALNUT GROVE ELEM. at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 53.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WALNUT GROVE ELEM. has changed only slightly, going from 147 students in 2018 to 144 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for WALNUT GROVE ELEM. typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.