WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM

WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM operates as a medium-sized primary school in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, run under WILLARD R-II. Current enrollment sits at 394 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM sits 25% above that benchmark.

Within WILLARD R-II, which oversees 9 schools and 4,578 students, WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 68.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Greene County put median household earnings sit near $61,479, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Greene County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WILLARD INTERMEDIATE-SOUTH, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLARD ORCHARD HILLS ELEM at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 45.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 357 students in 2018 compared to 394 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 4% to 8% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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