Alma Schrader Elementary School

Size

Alma Schrader Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Cape Girardeau 63 School District's 5 elementary schools; its 332 students are 7.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 4.1 miles away and have a median of 386 students, so Alma Schrader Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 84 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 55, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 4 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (55 against 62). 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 67.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across Cape Girardeau 63 (42.7%). Black students are next, at 14.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Cape Girardeau 63 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 23.2% 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

Alma Schrader Elementary School has 30.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 332 students would have about 27 teachers, so Alma Schrader Elementary School has 3.9 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Clippard Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 4 elementary schools within 5 miles and 11 within 10 miles.

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