WILLARD EAST ELEM.

WILLARD EAST ELEM. operates as an average-sized elementary school in WILLARD, Missouri, run under WILLARD R-II. Current enrollment sits at 322 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

WILLARD R-II comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,578 students; WILLARD EAST ELEM. is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLARD EAST ELEM. logs that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WILLARD EAST ELEM. sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.6%; actual is 78.5%, +27.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Greene County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,479 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Greene County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), WILLARD EAST ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WILLARD MIDDLE, roughly 0.3 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILLARD EAST ELEM. comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. WILLARD EAST ELEM.'s enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 322). White enrollment moved from 94% to 98% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.