Clippard Elementary School

Size

Clippard Elementary School is the 2nd largest of Cape Girardeau 63 School District's 5 elementary schools; its 383 students are 8.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 4.1 miles away and have a median of 361 students, so Clippard 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 pre-K with 101 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 46, against an average of 64 per grade. This year grade 4 has 21% fewer students than kindergarten (53 against 67). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 101 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 33.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Cape Girardeau 63 (33.4%). White students are next, at 33.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Cape Girardeau 63 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 40.7% 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

Clippard Elementary School has 37.56 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 383 students would have about 31.1 teachers, so Clippard Elementary School has 6.5 more.

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 city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. Franklin Elementary School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. There are 4 elementary schools within 5 miles and 11 within 10 miles.

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