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WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM.
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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 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 47 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 27 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM.
WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM. is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in WRIGHT CITY, Missouri, one of the schools within WRIGHT CITY R-II OF WARREN CO.. The school enrolls 402 students in grades 2 through 4. That puts it 28% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.
WRIGHT CITY R-II OF WARREN CO. comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,875 students; WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM. is among them.
In terms of who attends, WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM. reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Warren County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM. shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 56.3%, a residual of +5.9 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Warren County put the typical household earns roughly $81,209 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Warren County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,045 students), of which WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM. is one.
Nearest neighbor: WRIGHT CITY MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM. comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. WRIGHT CITY WEST ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 532 (now 402). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 80% to 74%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.
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