Central Elementary School

Size

Central Elementary School is the largest of South Pemiscot County R-V School District's 2 elementary schools; its 235 students are 40.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 10 miles away and have a median of 250 students, so Central Elementary School 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 2 with 61 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 38, against an average of 47 per grade. This year grade 5 has 21% more students than grade 1 (46 against 38). 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 59.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across South Pemiscot County R-V (60.2%). Black students are next, at 22.6%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across South Pemiscot County R-V and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 41.3% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

Central Elementary School has 18.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 235 students would have about 19.1 teachers, so Central Elementary School has about as many as that.

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 East Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in the same district. There are 2 elementary schools within 5 miles and 4 within 10 miles.

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