The first objective addressed by this study was to describe selected demographics of theparticipating school and students. This study took place in a rural southwest Missouri publicschool. There were 739 students in the district from Kindergarten to 12 The grade with 160 studentsenrolled in the middle school (grades 6-8). About 95 percent of the whole student population isCaucasian, approximately 3 percent Hispanic, and approximately 2 percent Asian. Almost 63percent of the students receive free and reduced lunch and almost 20 percent of the children inLawrence County live in poverty.