Beasley Elementary School

Size

Beasley Elementary School is the smallest of Mehlville R-IX School District's 11 elementary schools; its 250 students are 2.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 426; Beasley Elementary School 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 5 with 49 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 33, against an average of 42 per grade. This year grade 5 has 48% more students than kindergarten (49 against 33). 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: 65.6% here and 78.8% across Mehlville R-IX. Black students are next, at 18%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

50.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.1% across Mehlville R-IX and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 22% 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 27.69 full-time-equivalent teachers for 250 students, Beasley Elementary School has 9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 250 students would have about 20.3 teachers, so Beasley Elementary School has 7.4 more.

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

Location

Beasley Elementary School 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 Forder Elementary School, 2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 85 other elementary schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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