Triway

Size

Triway is the smallest of East Newton County R-VI School District's 2 elementary schools; its 431 students are 29.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 11.4 miles away and have a median of 279 students, so Triway 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 7 with 56 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 20, against an average of 43 per grade. This year grade 8 has 37% more students than kindergarten (48 against 35). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 20 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 76.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across East Newton County R-VI (80.3%). Asian students are next, at 13.9%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

66.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 62.8% across East Newton County R-VI and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 24.6% 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

Triway has 32.34 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 431 students would have about 35 teachers, so Triway has 2.7 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 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 Rocky Comfort Elementary School, 4.8 miles away in McDonald County R-I School District. There is 1 elementary school within 5 miles and 2 within 10 miles.

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