George Washington Carver Elementary School

Size

George Washington Carver Elementary School is the largest of Neosho School District's 5 elementary schools; its 591 students are 11.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 6.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 309; George Washington Carver 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 kindergarten with 128 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 34, against an average of 99 per grade. This year grade 4 has 18% fewer students than kindergarten (105 against 128). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 34 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 67.7% here and 61.7% across Neosho School District. Hispanic students are next, at 16.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

55.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 60.1% across Neosho School District and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 25.7% 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 36 full-time-equivalent teachers for 591 students, George Washington Carver Elementary School has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 591 students would have about 48 teachers, so George Washington Carver Elementary School has 12 fewer.

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

Location

George Washington Carver Elementary School is in a town 10 to 35 miles from an urbanized area, which NCES calls town, distant. The nearest other elementary school is South Elementary School, 2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 5 other elementary schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

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