Summary:
The Crawford County R-II school district in Missouri is home to a single middle school, Cuba Middle, which serves students in grades 5-8. Despite serving a relatively high percentage of economically disadvantaged students, Cuba Middle has consistently performed well, ranking in the top 37% of Missouri middle schools and maintaining a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger for the past three years.
Cuba Middle's academic strengths are particularly evident in mathematics, where proficiency rates exceed the state average across all grade levels, with 5th and 6th graders performing exceptionally well. The school also outperforms the state in science proficiency for both 5th and 8th graders, and 6th and 7th graders demonstrate above-average English Language Arts proficiency. These academic achievements may be attributed to the school's relatively favorable student-teacher ratio of 12.4, as well as its higher-than-average per-student spending of $9,611.
While Cuba Middle's overall performance is commendable, the district and school leadership should continue to monitor the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 16.3%, as high rates of chronic absenteeism can negatively impact student learning and achievement. Additionally, the school's significant population of economically disadvantaged students, as indicated by the 47.04% free/reduced lunch rate, may require additional support and resources to ensure continued academic success.
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