The top reported proficiency rate is 61% in Math. The lowest is 60% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Bloomsdale Elem.
Bloomsdale Elementary serves students from preschool through fifth grade in the small town of Bloomsdale, Missouri, located off Interstate 55 and Highway 61 in Ste. Genevieve County. The school is part of the Ste. Genevieve County R-II district. Bloomsdale itself is a low-density, car-dependent rural community with a high homeownership rate. Its economy is centered on health care, educational services, and manufacturing, and the town has seen steady population growth and rising property values in recent years.
The school enrolls enough students to fill multiple sections per grade, with class sizes that are manageable for an elementary setting. The student body is overwhelmingly white, with a small number of students identifying as two or more races and very small numbers identifying as Black or Hispanic. Just under half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that places the school within a typical range for a rural Missouri elementary school. Data on special education and English learner populations was not available.
On state assessments, Bloomsdale Elementary’s results are mixed and harder to fully read because some scores were suppressed. In third-grade math, a majority of students scored at the proficient level or above, a solid result. Fifth-grade math was similar, with a clear majority reaching proficiency. Fourth-grade math was lower, with about half of students scoring proficient. The pattern in English language arts is less complete. Third-grade ELA showed a majority of students at proficiency, which is a positive sign for early reading. Fourth-grade and fifth-grade ELA results were suppressed, so no information is available for those grades. Fifth-grade science results were also suppressed. A parent may want to ask the school directly about its ELA and science performance in the upper grades, since the data does not give a full picture.
Because Bloomsdale Elementary only serves through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate to consider, and there are no high school level programs such as Advanced Placement, dual credit, or career pathways to evaluate. The school’s offerings are those typical of an elementary building: foundational academics in reading, math, science, and social studies, with whatever enrichment the district provides. The comparison fact-set that would place this school’s proficiency relative to other districts in Ste. Genevieve County could not be generated because there was only one district in that set, so there is no local benchmark for how this school stacks up against neighbors.
The district itself did not have any parent-relevant changes, such as curriculum shifts or facility referendums, documented in available sources. That is not unusual for a smaller, stable rural district. Families considering Bloomsdale Elementary should know that it is a straightforward neighborhood elementary school in a growing but still rural community. The academic picture shows a school that performs reasonably well in math in the grades where data is available, while ELA performance is harder to assess due to missing results. A parent looking for a small-town setting with modest class sizes and a largely homogeneous student population would find that here. Anyone wanting a fuller view of academic trends in the upper elementary grades should reach out to the school directly, because the state testing data does not tell the whole story.
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