Willard South Elementary School

Size

Of the 5 elementary schools in Willard R-II School District, Willard South Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 8.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 313; Willard 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 kindergarten with 84 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 34, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 4 has 10% fewer students than kindergarten (76 against 84). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 34 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 73.4% here and 84.7% across Willard R-II. Hispanic students are next, at 10.9%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

58.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 38.9% across Willard R-II and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 31.1% 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 33.76 full-time-equivalent teachers for 395 students, Willard South Elementary School has 11.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 395 students would have about 32.1 teachers, so Willard South Elementary School has 1.7 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

Willard South Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Bissett Elementary School, 1.5 miles away in Springfield R-XII School District. Within 10 miles there are 42 other elementary schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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