Academie Lafayette Oak Elementary School

Size

Academie Lafayette Oak Elementary School is the largest of Academie Lafayette's 2 elementary schools; its 520 students are 36.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 352; Academie Lafayette Oak Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 2 with 96 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 68, against an average of 87 per grade. This year grade 5 has 28% fewer students than kindergarten (68 against 95). 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

The largest group is White students: 60% here and 55.7% across Academie Lafayette. Black students are next, at 19.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

26.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.9% across Academie Lafayette and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 7.3% 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

With 38.75 full-time-equivalent teachers for 520 students, Academie Lafayette Oak Elementary School has 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 520 students would have about 42.3 teachers, so Academie Lafayette Oak Elementary School has 3.5 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

Academie Lafayette Oak Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is University Academy-Lower, 0.3 miles away in University Academy. Within 10 miles there are 72 other elementary schools, 27 of them within 5 miles.

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