WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH

WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH is a low-enrollment middle school in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, operated by WILLARD R-II. The school educates 284 students in grades 5 through 6. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 49.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Greene County reports that median household income runs about $61,479, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Greene County runs 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), of which WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH is one.

Nearest neighbor: WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH. On composite proficiency, WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH operates from an urban location.

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