The reported proficiency rate for Math is 80%.
Original Research by School Decision on Rocky Comfort Elem.
Rocky Comfort Elementary is the only public school in Rocky Comfort, a very small unincorporated rural community in northeastern McDonald County, Missouri. The school serves students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. It is a regular public school within the McDonald County R-I district. Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report.
The school’s enrollment is small for a PK-through-8 building, with an even distribution across the grades that keeps class sizes modest. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with small numbers of Asian, Hispanic, and multiracial students, and very few American Indian or Native Hawaiian students represented.
The state test results for the most recent year are limited because many grade-level scores are suppressed, which sometimes happens when the group tested is too small for the state to report a proficiency rate with statistical confidence. The one grade for which math results were reported was grade 4, and there a substantial majority of students scored at or above the proficient level. For the other tested grades in math, and for all tested grades in English language arts and science, the results were suppressed. A parent may want to ask the school directly for a clearer picture of academic performance in those grades and subjects.
The community context matters here. Rocky Comfort has no incorporated municipal government and no downtown commercial district; its built environment is rural and auto-dependent, with the school located along the highway that runs through the area. Formal population tracking is recent, with the community first appearing as a census-designated place in the 2020 census. The housing market shows home values that are roughly near the broader state median, and the community sits in McDonald County, which is the only district in the county for comparison purposes, so there is no local peer district to benchmark against. No recent district-level changes, like bond issues or curriculum shifts, were found in available sources.
For a family considering this school, the takeaway is a small, rural setting with young children in very small classes through eighth grade. There is limited academic data to evaluate school-wide performance, and no high school programs to consider. The school fits a family looking for a neighborhood elementary and middle school experience in a quiet, unincorporated community where the school is one of the few local institutions. Because the available test results are mostly suppressed, a parent who wants a clearer sense of how students perform in English, math, and science would need to ask the school for more detail.
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