Joel E. Barber Elementary School

Size

Joel E. Barber Elementary School is the only school in Laclede County C-5 School District, so its 505 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 14.4 miles away and have a median of 502 students, so Joel E. Barber 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 5 with 65 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 35, against an average of 51 per grade. This year grade 8 has 24% fewer students than kindergarten (41 against 54). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 35 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 93.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Missouri public schools (66.9%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 37.8% 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. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Joel E. Barber Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 505 students would have about 41.1 teachers, so Joel E. Barber Elementary School has 5.1 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 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 Joe D. Esther Elementary School, 4.6 miles away in Lebanon R-III School District. There are 3 elementary schools within 5 miles and 3 within 10 miles.

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