Academie Lafayette Armour IMS

Size

Academie Lafayette Armour IMS is the only middle school in Academie Lafayette. Its 295 students are 20.7% of the district's 1,425. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 290 students, so Academie Lafayette Armour IMS is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 6 with 116 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 77, against an average of 98 per grade. This year grade 8 has 34% fewer students than grade 6 (77 against 116). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 60.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Academie Lafayette (55.7%). Black students are next, at 17.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

28.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.9% across Academie Lafayette and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 4.1% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Academie Lafayette Armour IMS has 25.15 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 295 students would have about 22.7 teachers, so Academie Lafayette Armour IMS has 2.4 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri middle schools (13).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Middle School, 0.4 miles away in Citizens of the World Charter. There are 12 middle schools within 5 miles and 23 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.