WHEATLAND ELEM.

WHEATLAND ELEM. is one of the compact elementary campuss in WHEATLAND, Missouri, part of WHEATLAND R-II, with 140 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 56% leaner than the state mean of about 315.

Across the 2 schools in WHEATLAND R-II (261 students total), WHEATLAND ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, WHEATLAND ELEM. logs that 99% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

Looking at school resources, WHEATLAND ELEM. shows 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WHEATLAND ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 59.2%, a residual of +9.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hickory County indicate the typical household earns roughly $39,390 per year, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Hickory County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,618 students), of which WHEATLAND ELEM. is one.

WHEATLAND HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around WHEATLAND ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WHEATLAND ELEM. at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 48.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 193 students in 2018 compared to 140 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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