The reported proficiency rate for Math is 32%.
Original Research by School Decision on Knox Co. Elem.
Knox Co. Elem. is a regular public school serving prekindergarten through fifth grade in Edina, the county seat of Knox County in northeast Missouri. The school is part of the Knox County R-I district. Because it serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report.
The student body is very homogeneous in racial composition, overwhelmingly white, with a small share of students from other backgrounds. More than six in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a level that indicates a substantial share of families in the surrounding farming community face economic pressure. The enrollment is spread fairly evenly across grades PK through five, though the third grade cohort has somewhat more students than the upper grades.
State assessment results from the Missouri Assessment Program are available for some grade-subject combinations, but many cells are suppressed, typical in a school with small class sizes where reporting could indirectly identify individual students. In math, the available data shows a mixed picture. Among third graders who took the test, a modest share scored proficient or advanced. Among fourth graders, the share was much lower. Fifth grade math results were suppressed, so no proficiency rate is reported there. In English language arts, results for third, fourth, and fifth grade were all suppressed, meaning parents can see the number of students tested but not the breakdown of who met the proficiency bar. Science results for fifth grade were also suppressed. The pattern of widespread suppression means the public record offers only fragmentary evidence of academic performance. A parent considering this school should ask the principal or district directly for detailed classroom-level performance data, as the state reporting does not give a full picture.
The school itself is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet. No information on discipline rates, staffing ratios, chronic absenteeism, or course access was available in the data.
Edina is a small rural county seat in the grain and livestock farming area of northeast Missouri, set on rolling prairie between the North and South Forks of the South Fabius River. Its historic double-square town layout dates to when the town was platted as a civic and commercial center for Knox County agriculture. The town is compact, but its very small population and rural setting mean street life is minimal and an automobile is needed for most errands. The civic core includes the Knox County Courthouse, a branch library, and a historic Catholic church. Residential density is low, and the surrounding landscape is open farmland.
The town is experiencing slight population decline, with numbers down from several decades ago. The median household income is modest, and the poverty rate is elevated. No major new housing developments or growth projects were publicly reported. The housing market is notably affordable compared to state and national benchmarks; home values in the area have risen at a steep rate over the past year, which a parent should keep in mind if planning to buy.
At the district level, no recent major changes such as boundary adjustments, bond measures, or leadership turnover were reported. The district appears to have been operating stably.
The comparison data set is too small to place this school relative to other districts in Knox County, because there is no other district in the county. That limit means a parent cannot use county-level comparisons to gauge where this school falls; the only comparisons would be to broader state averages, and the state assessment data itself is too suppressed for a confident read.
Knox Co. Elem. is best understood as a small, demographically homogeneous elementary school serving a rural community that is economically modest and slowly shrinking. The school's poverty rate is high. State test results are fragmentary, with many grade levels and subjects suppressed, so families will need to gather information directly from the school to understand how students are performing in reading, math, and science. The school does not serve grades beyond fifth, so middle and high school arrangements must be tracked separately through the district. For a family rooted in or moving to this part of northeast Missouri, this is the local elementary option, and the context is a stable rural town with limited commercial amenities and an affordable but rising housing market.
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