Bel-Nor

Size

Bel-Nor is the smallest of Normandy Schools Collaborative's 5 elementary schools; its 205 students are 8.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 228 students, so Bel-Nor 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 58 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 22, against an average of 41 per grade. This year grade 5 has 91% more students than grade 1 (42 against 22). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 82% of enrollment, a lower share than across Normandy Schools Collaborative (89.1%). Hispanic students are next, at 12.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 99.9% across Normandy Schools Collaborative and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 59.5% 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

Bel-Nor has 18.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 205 students would have about 16.7 teachers, so Bel-Nor has 1.8 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Normandy Early Learning Center, 0.6 miles away in the same district. There are 48 elementary schools within 5 miles and 153 within 10 miles.

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