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WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR.
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 30 points, placing it in Missouri's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR.
WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR., a mid-sized middle school in BATTLEFIELD, Missouri, operated by SPRINGFIELD R-XII, hosts 424 students, covering grades 5 through 6.
Within SPRINGFIELD R-XII, which oversees 54 schools and 24,450 students, WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR. is one campus in the system.
Demographically, WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR. shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest consists of 8% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR. higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Greene County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR. sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 50.8%; actual is 80.5%, +29.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Greene County put median household earnings sit near $61,479, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR. is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).
The closest other public school is MCBRIDE ELEM., roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR. at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 58.9%.
WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR. operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILSON'S CREEK 5-6 INTER. CTR. has decreased 11%, going from 474 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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