County / FIPS 29035
Carter County
Missouri
Carter County runs 5 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Missouri has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
5
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
507
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Carter County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$47.2M
Per resident
$9,076
Change since FY2021
+1%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $47M |
| 2022 | $52M |
| 2023 | $44M |
| 2024 | $45M |
| 2025 | $47M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Carter County ranks 2915th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Carter County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Carter Co. R-Ii Elem. | East Carter Co. R-Ii | Ellsinore | 327 |
| East Carter Co. R-Ii High | East Carter Co. R-Ii | Ellsinore | 184 |
| East Carter Co. R-Ii Middle | East Carter Co. R-Ii | Ellsinore | 141 |
| Van Buren Elem. | Van Buren R-I | Van Buren | 291 |
| Van Buren High | Van Buren R-I | Van Buren | 225 |