Public school / Primary
Joe D. Esther Elem.
Lebanon, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 291827000975
- District
- Lebanon R-Iii
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Joe D. Esther Elem. is a public primary school in Lebanon, Missouri, run by Lebanon R-Iii. It enrols 949 students — the 9665th largest of 2,483 public schools in Missouri.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
949
Teachers
64.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
66.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Lebanon R-Iii
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lebanon Sr. High1,474 students
- 2Joe D. Esther Elem.949 students
- 3Lebanon Middle School921 students
- 4Maplecrest Elem.578 students
- 5Boswell Elem.558 students
- Enrollment+181.6%
- Teachers+166.7%
- Students per teacher+14.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+33.9%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory