WEST ELEM.

WEST ELEM. is a primary school of large scale in OZARK, Missouri, run under OZARK R-VI, educateing 584 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 85% larger than the state mean of about 315.

OZARK R-VI comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,959 students; WEST ELEM. is among them.

In terms of who attends, WEST ELEM. shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest reads as 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 37% of students at WEST ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEST ELEM. is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 90.3%, a residual of +39.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Christian County shows median household income runs about $83,437, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. WEST ELEM. is one of 33 public schools in Christian County (combined enrollment of about 16,175 students).

Nearest neighbor: HIGH POINTE ELEM., around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEST ELEM. ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST ELEM. has shrank 12%, going from 661 students in 2018 to 584 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.