About Richland R-I School District
Richland R-I School District is a public school system serving Stoddard County, Missouri, based in Essex. It serves 283 students across 2 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a rural: distant district. By enrollment it is the #380 largest of Missouri’s 555 school systems.
Size and structure
Richland R-I School District enrolls 283 students in 2 schools — an average of about 142 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #380 of 555 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Richland R-I School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (283 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Richland R-I School District employs about 28 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 10.0:1 — below the Missouri average of about 12.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 38.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Missouri funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Richland R-I School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Missouri measures districts through the Missouri School Improvement Program (MSIP 6), whose Annual Performance Report (APR) scores academic achievement, growth, graduation, college-and-career readiness and attendance. Look up Richland R-I School District on the MSIP / APR pages.
Accreditation status
Missouri assigns its own state accreditation status — accredited, provisionally accredited or unaccredited — based on the MSIP performance standards, separate from any voluntary Cognia accreditation a district may also hold. See the Missouri DESE for a district’s current status.
Richland R-I School District vs. Missouri
See every Missouri district side by side in the Missouri directory.
Look up Richland R-I School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):