The reported proficiency rate for English language arts is 90%.
Original Research by School Decision on Atlanta Elem.
Atlanta Elementary sits in the small, primarily residential rural town of Atlanta in Macon County, Missouri. The school serves kindergarten through sixth grade as a regular public school within the Atlanta C-3 district. The town itself is compact, covering just a few square miles on a ridge between two river forks, with a modest town center at Atterberry Park where the annual Atlanta Homecoming takes place. Civic life is woven together around the school district, local churches, and community events like a PTO-hosted Big Wheels event and an Easter egg hunt. U.S. Route 63 passes just east of town, connecting north to La Plata and south to Macon, the county seat. The nearest Amtrak station is in La Plata. The area has seen gradual population decline, and housing values in the surrounding area sit modestly below state benchmarks, with relatively affordable price-to-income ratios.
The student body at Atlanta Elementary is small and almost entirely white, with a small number of students identifying as two or more races. Just under half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a common indicator of economic need in public schools. The school does not report its special education or English learner populations in the available data, so families with children in those categories may want to ask the school directly about support services.
State test results for the 2024-25 school year are sparse because of data suppression, which Missouri applies when the number of tested students in a grade is too small to report a valid rate. For most grade-subject combinations, the proficiency rate is suppressed. The one exception is fourth-grade English language arts, where the school reported that a large majority of students scored proficient or advanced. In math and science at other grade levels, as well as most other English language arts grades, the rates are withheld. What can be seen is that among the limited set of reported scores, the school’s overall proficiency index, combining all tested subjects and grades with a reported rate, places it well above the midpoint among the districts in Macon County. That single point of comparison should be read with caution because it is based on just one grade-subject cell.
Because the school stops at sixth grade, there is no graduation rate to report. Similarly, the school environment data does not include chronic absenteeism or discipline measures, and the district’s recent changes search yielded nothing of lasting impact to note. No program offerings were provided.
For a family considering Atlanta Elementary, the key takeaway is that this is a very small, rural school in a town where school and community are tightly connected. The student population is homogeneous, and the economic diversity is moderate. The limited test data makes it difficult to draw a full picture of academic performance across all grades, but the one available subject-year combination points to strong literacy results at the fourth-grade level. Parents who want a fuller view of how the school serves students with disabilities, English learners, or students needing academic intervention would need to follow up with the school directly, as those details are not present in the public data. The setting offers a close-knit environment, modest housing costs relative to the state, and a slower pace of life in a town that has been shrinking gradually over the past several census counts.
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