The top reported proficiency rate is 51% in Math. The lowest is 23% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Neelyville Elem.
Neelyville Elementary serves grades three through six in the Neelyville R-IV district, a small rural district in Butler County in southeastern Missouri. The school is a regular public school and is not a charter or magnet. It is the only elementary covering these grades in a district where students stay in town from elementary through high school, meaning the school is embedded in the community rather than sitting on a separate campus. The town itself is a small, overwhelmingly rural community that has experienced a notable population decline over recent years, and the housing stock is small. No major new housing developments or commercial projects are mentioned in available sources; the area is primarily residential with a strong faith-community presence and very limited commercial activity. Major employers are concentrated roughly twenty miles away in Poplar Bluff, and the nearest hospital, public airport, and Amtrak service are also there. For recreation, the Black River and Lake Wappapello are nearby.
The school’s enrollment is small for this grade band. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a commonly used indicator of economic need. The student body is overwhelmingly white, with small numbers of Asian, Hispanic, and multiracial students. Data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available in the source material.
On the Missouri Assessment Program, the school shows a mixed picture. In fourth-grade math and English language arts, proficiency rates were similar to each other and in the middle range. Fifth-grade math was lower, and fifth-grade English language arts was notably lower. Fifth-grade science proficiency was quite low. By sixth grade, proficiency rates in both math and English language arts were higher than in the preceding grades, with sixth-grade math being the strongest tested subject. Third-grade results in both math and English language arts were suppressed in the data, so those are not available for comparison. A parent may want to look into this further with the school. Taken together, the school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint among the three districts in Butler County.
Since the school serves only grades three through six, it does not have a graduation rate. No data on chronic absenteeism or discipline were available. Information on course access, including any gifted, arts, or career-oriented programs, was not provided in the source data. The district brief turned up no evidence of recent referenda, curriculum changes, property-tax shifts, or other parent-relevant changes of lasting impact in recent years. The school’s website was listed but no specific information from it was included in the data provided.
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