Ackerman

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in Specl. School Dst. St. Louis County, Ackerman is the largest, with 3.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 360; Ackerman is smaller than most of them.

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 8 with 29 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 1, against an average of 15 per grade. This year grade 8 has 2,800% more students than kindergarten (29 against 1). 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 Black students: 82.5% here and 38.7% across Specl. School Dst. St. Louis County. White students are next, at 16.1%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 23.3% across Specl. School Dst. St. Louis County and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 50.4% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

With 38.1 full-time-equivalent teachers for 137 students, Ackerman has 3.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 137 students would have about 11.1 teachers, so Ackerman has 27 more.

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

Location

Ackerman is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Robinwood Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District. Within 10 miles there are 88 other elementary schools, 45 of them within 5 miles.

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