WALT DISNEY ELEM.

WALT DISNEY ELEM., an expansive K-5 school in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, operated by SPRINGFIELD R-XII, serves 514 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 63% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 24,450 students. WALT DISNEY ELEM. is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, WALT DISNEY ELEM. logs that White students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 8% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Greene County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WALT DISNEY ELEM. ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.8%; WALT DISNEY ELEM. posts 83.0%, +32.2 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, 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%. WALT DISNEY ELEM. is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: KICKAPOO HIGH, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WALT DISNEY ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WALT DISNEY ELEM. at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 53.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WALT DISNEY ELEM. has decreased 8%, going from 560 students in 2018 to 514 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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