WILLARD MIDDLE

WILLARD MIDDLE is one of the roomy intermediate schools in WILLARD, Missouri, part of WILLARD R-II, with 704 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. That puts it 53% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

WILLARD R-II runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,578 students. WILLARD MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WILLARD MIDDLE records that nearly all students (83%) are White; the rest is composed of 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, WILLARD MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 58.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate median household earnings sit near $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 MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is WILLARD EAST ELEM., roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILLARD MIDDLE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLARD MIDDLE has edged up 4%, going from 677 students in 2018 to 704 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 91% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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