Southwest Livingston Co. R-I operates 2 public schools serving 184 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 other schools, giving families a clear picture of grade-band coverage before they move, rent, or enrol. Aggregated across those campuses, enrollment totals 179 pupils using the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is geographically located in Livingston County County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $10,320 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, which aggregates every revenue and spending line reported under federal accounting standards. The funding mix is 43.1% local, 40.7% state, and 16.1% federal — a breakdown that matters because districts leaning heavily on local revenue are more exposed to property-tax swings, while higher federal shares typically track Title I concentration. Average teacher compensation clocks in at $56,117 per NCES F-33, a signal of the district's ability to recruit and retain staff against neighbouring districts.
a 89.5:1 student-counselor ratio that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 94.5% White, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools.
Southwest Livingston Co R-1 El accounts for 50.3% of all Southwest Livingston Co. R-I student enrollment
That concentration — well above the 8.4% national median for largest-entity share — means Southwest Livingston Co. R-I-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: other. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Southwest Livingston Co. R-I has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 57.1% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Southwest Livingston Co. R-I student-counselor ratio is 90:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment — districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.