Dover Hill Elementary School

Size

Dover Hill Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Joplin Schools' 10 elementary schools; its 412 students are 5.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 289; Dover Hill 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 5 with 76 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 65, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% more students than kindergarten (76 against 65). 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

The largest group is White students: 64.8% here and 65.6% across Joplin Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 13.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 66.2% across Joplin Schools and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 39.8% 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

With 31.58 full-time-equivalent teachers for 412 students, Dover Hill Elementary School has 13 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 412 students would have about 33.5 teachers, so Dover Hill Elementary School has 1.9 fewer.

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

Location

Dover Hill Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Royal Heights Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 20 other elementary schools, 13 of them within 5 miles.

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