The top reported proficiency rate is 60% in English language arts. The lowest is 40% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Goodman Elem.
Goodman Elementary serves students from preschool through fourth grade as part of the Neosho School District. Because it is an early-elementary school, there are no graduation rates to report, and state testing data is available only for the grades that take the Missouri Assessment Program, which are third and fourth grade.
The school enrolls a student body that is predominantly White, with smaller shares of Hispanic, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, two-or-more-races, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Black students, in roughly that order. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a community where most families are working within a modest income band. The school is a regular public school located in Goodman, a small, rural town on the northern edge of McDonald County, near the Newton County line. The town itself sits on a ridge in the Ozarks region and was historically tied to apple orchards and strawberry farming, operations that are no longer active. Today its commercial footprint is limited to a handful of retail stores, service businesses, banks, and a gas station, with residents commuting for work; the average commute time points to a driving-dependent town. Housing values are below state and national benchmarks.
On state assessments, the available data shows a mixed picture. In third-grade English language arts, the share of students scoring proficient or above was reported at a moderate level, while the fourth-grade ELA rate was suppressed. In math, third-grade results were also suppressed, meaning the state withheld the figure, typically because the group tested was too small for reliable reporting. For fourth-grade math, the reported proficiency rate placed roughly two out of five students at the proficient or above level. A parent may want to ask the school how it supports students who are not yet at that benchmark, especially in math, where the grade-level result is the only one available for review.
The Neosho School District, which runs Goodman Elementary, showed no significant parent-relevant changes in publicly available records for the recent past. That means there are no major boundary shifts, program overhauls, or facility plans to note, though it also means a parent should ask directly if anything is in the pipeline for the elementary level.
Because Goodman Elementary serves only the primary grades, the school's academic picture is intentionally narrow: it is the entry point for students in this part of the Neosho district. The school's size is typical for a small-town elementary building serving a single attendance zone. For families weighing this school, the context that matters is what comes next: the elementary feeds into a district that spans more than one building, and a parent will want to understand how those later schools perform, since this early stop does not reveal the full trajectory. The town's slow, incremental growth and its location near a major highway give it a stable, low-pressure feel, but the limited local economy means a family's housing and employment options likely extend well beyond Goodman itself.
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