Pineville Primary School

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in McDonald County R-I School District, Pineville Primary School is the smallest, with 3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 10.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 310; Pineville Primary School is smaller 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 pre-K with 37 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 21, against an average of 27 per grade. This year grade 2 has 22% fewer students than kindergarten (21 against 27). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 37 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 78% here and 62.7% across McDonald County R-I. Hispanic students are next, at 11%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

61.5% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 69.7% across McDonald County R-I and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 30.3% 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 9.4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 109 students, Pineville Primary School has 11.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 109 students would have about 8.9 teachers, so Pineville Primary 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

Pineville Primary School is in rural territory 5 to 25 miles from an urbanized area, or 2.5 to 10 miles from a town, which NCES calls rural, distant. The nearest other elementary school is Anderson Elementary School, 3.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 4 other elementary schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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