Anderson Elementary School

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in McDonald County R-I School District, Anderson Elementary School is the largest, with 14.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 11.7 miles away and have a median of 261 students, so Anderson Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 4 with 90 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 37, against an average of 74 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% fewer students than kindergarten (72 against 85). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 37 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 78.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across McDonald County R-I (62.7%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

60.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 69.7% across McDonald County R-I and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 32.1% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Anderson Elementary School has 40.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 521 students would have about 42.4 teachers, so Anderson Elementary School has 1.5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

NCES classifies its location as rural, distant, which means it is in rural territory 5 to 25 miles from an urbanized area, or 2.5 to 10 miles from a town. The nearest other elementary school is Pineville Primary School, 3.1 miles away in the same district. There is 1 elementary school within 5 miles and 3 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.