The reported proficiency rate for Math is 39%.
Original Research by School Decision on Community Elem.
Community Elementary, a regular public school in Laddonia, Missouri, serves students from prekindergarten through fifth grade. It is the elementary school for the Community R-VI School District, a small rural district in Audrain County. The school is a straightforward, modest building serving a small, tight-knit community.
Laddonia itself is a very small rural town with a population that has been steadily declining over the past two decades. It retains a traditional small-town grid layout, and its character is primarily residential. Residents likely commute to nearby towns like Mexico or Vandalia for work and larger services. The town has a lending library branch, and municipal services include police, fire, and EMS. No major new housing developments or growth initiatives were identified in available information, and the population trend is downward, a context that gives the school a stable but not expanding enrollment base.
The school’s enrollment is small. The student body is overwhelmingly white, with only a small number of Hispanic students and a handful of students identifying as two or more races. Just over half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting an affordable, working-class rural economic profile. No data on special education or English learner populations were available from the source material, so a parent may want to ask the school for that information directly.
State testing data for the most recent school year is limited in public reports. The data that was reported is sparse enough that it is difficult to build a full picture of academic performance. The only non-suppressed result came from fourth-grade math, where a moderate share of students scored at the proficient level or above. All other grade-level results in math, English language arts, and fifth-grade science were suppressed from public view, meaning the school reports too few students in those tested groups for the state to release a proficiency rate. This is a common circumstance in very small schools and does not necessarily indicate weak performance, but it does mean a parent has less comparative data to work with than at a larger school.
The available proficiency data was sufficient to position the school within a county-wide comparison. Relative to the three districts in Audrain County, Community Elementary’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades fell in the top quartile. That is a point in its favor within this small local set, though the gap between the best and worst in the group is narrow. There is no graduation rate to consider because the school does not serve high school grades, and chronic absenteeism data was also missing.
Program offerings were not available from the source data, so there is no description of enrichment, arts, music, or extracurriculars to report. Given the small size of the school, a parent may want to have a direct conversation with the principal or district office to understand what is available. No parent-relevant changes in the district, such as new facilities, boundary shifts, or program launches, were found in publicly reported information.
For a family considering this school, the context is straightforward. This is a very small rural elementary school in a shrinking town, serving a predominantly white, working-class population. The housing market in the area is highly affordable relative to state and national benchmarks. The peer environment will be small and intimate, with the benefits and limitations that come from a single classroom per grade. The available testing data, while thin, suggests the school is performing competitively within its own county. If a family values a small, community-centered school where their child will be known, and the lack of extensive test data and program offerings is acceptable, Community Elementary fits that profile. A parent looking for a wide array of course options or a richly diverse student body will not find it here.
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