Sequiota Elementary School

Size

Of the 33 elementary schools in Springfield R-XII School District, Sequiota Elementary School is the 19th largest, with 1.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.5 miles away and have a median of 300 students, so Sequiota 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 3 with 69 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 41, against an average of 53 per grade. This year grade 5 has 34% more students than kindergarten (59 against 44). 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 76.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across Springfield R-XII (68.4%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

34.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.6% across Springfield R-XII and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 15.7% 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

Sequiota Elementary School has 20.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 319 students would have about 25.9 teachers, so Sequiota Elementary School has 5.4 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 city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Wilder Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 13 elementary schools within 5 miles and 43 within 10 miles.

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