South Elementary School

Size

South Elementary School is the largest of Kennett 39 School District's 2 elementary schools; its 420 students are 23.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 14 miles away and have a median of 189 students, so South 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 grade 3 with 150 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 127, against an average of 140 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% fewer students than grade 3 (127 against 150). 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 54.5% of enrollment, about the same share as across Kennett 39 (53.6%). Black students are next, at 35%. 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 99.8% across Kennett 39 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 46.4% 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

South Elementary School has 32.36 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 420 students would have about 34.1 teachers, so South Elementary School has 1.7 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 town, remote, which means it is in a town more than 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other elementary school is H. Byron Masterson Elementary School, 2.2 miles away in the same district. There is 1 elementary school within 5 miles and 3 within 10 miles.

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