Enrollment
140
Elementary
DISTRICT 131 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WHEATLAND R-II·NCES 293192002234
WHEATLAND ELEM.
18808 STATE HIGHWAY 83, WHEATLAND, MO 65779 · (417) 282-5833 · Hickory County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL140 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
80 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 54%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
WHEATLAND ELEM.→WHEATLAND HIGH
Based on grade levels within WHEATLAND R-II. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersEnglish Language Arts
63.1%
MO avg 49.5% . -1.1pp since 2023
Math
86.0%
MO avg 48.7% . +58.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 59 points.
Source: MO DVT (Growth). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
140
-53 (-27%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
was 14.7:1
% White
99%
was 99%
% Hispanic
1%
was 0%
% Black
0%
was 0%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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Hickory County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
8,585
Census ACS
Median income
$39,390
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
13%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
10
1,618 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Nearby schools
- WHEATLAND HIGH0.0 mi · 121
- HERMITAGE MIDDLE4.9 mi · 63
- HERMITAGE HIGH4.9 mi · 88
- HERMITAGE ELEM.4.9 mi · 138
- WEAUBLEAU ELEM.8.4 mi · 192
- WEAUBLEAU HIGH8.4 mi · 171
Frequently asked questions
About WHEATLAND ELEM.How large is WHEATLAND ELEM.?
WHEATLAND ELEM. enrolls approximately 140 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does WHEATLAND ELEM. serve?
WHEATLAND ELEM. serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WHEATLAND ELEM.?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WHEATLAND ELEM. is approximately 9.9:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WHEATLAND ELEM.?
At WHEATLAND ELEM., the student body is approximately 99% White, 1% Hispanic.
Is WHEATLAND ELEM. public or private?
WHEATLAND ELEM. is a public K-12 school, overseen by WHEATLAND R-II.
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