Aspire Academy

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in Confluence Academies, Aspire Academy is the smallest, with 4.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 234 students, so Aspire Academy is smaller 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 1 with 39 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 19, against an average of 28 per grade. This year grade 2 has 44% fewer students than kindergarten (19 against 34). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 20 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 96.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Confluence Academies (70.3%).

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 99.9% across Confluence Academies and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 69.6% 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

Aspire Academy has 12.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 112 students would have about 9.1 teachers, so Aspire Academy has 3.1 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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Walbridge Elementary Community Education, 0.3 miles away in St. Louis City School District. There are 47 elementary schools within 5 miles and 142 within 10 miles.

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