As of the 2016–2017 school year the district had 2,464 students and 430 employees, including 222 teachers.
[2] Prior to 2015 about half of its 20-25 English as a second language program students were of Hispanic origin.
By 2015 a large number of students from the Democratic Republic of the Congo appeared in Kirksville, doubling the number of ESOL students and giving it a French-speaking population not previously present.
Therefore, the district began expanding its ESOL program.
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