Bess Truman Primary Center

Size

Bess Truman Primary Center is the 5th largest of Webb City R-VII School District's 7 elementary schools; its 188 students are 4.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.3 miles away and have a median of 227 students, so Bess Truman Primary Center is close to their typical size.

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 1 with 100 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 88, against an average of 94 per grade. This year grade 1 has 14% more students than kindergarten (100 against 88). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 80.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Webb City R-VII (79.1%). Two or more races students are next, at 11.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

41.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 48.1% across Webb City R-VII and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 14.9% 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

Bess Truman Primary Center has 13.74 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 188 students would have about 15.3 teachers, so Bess Truman Primary Center has 1.6 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 suburb, small, which means it is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city. Harry S. Truman Elementary School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. There are 7 elementary schools within 5 miles and 21 within 10 miles.

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