Lake Road Elementary School

Size

Of the 5 elementary schools in Poplar Bluff R-I School District, Lake Road Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 6.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 6.7 miles away and have a median of 309 students, so Lake Road 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 62 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 38, against an average of 50 per grade. This year grade 6 has 27% fewer students than grade 1 (43 against 59). 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 68.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across Poplar Bluff R-I (74.8%). Black students are next, at 17%. 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 76.6% across Poplar Bluff R-I and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 43% 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

Lake Road Elementary School has 24.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 300 students would have about 24.4 teachers, so Lake Road 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 Eugene Field Elementary School, 4.5 miles away in the same district. There are 2 elementary schools within 5 miles and 5 within 10 miles.

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