Berkeley Elementary School

Size

Berkeley Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District's 13 elementary schools; its 374 students are 4.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 293; Berkeley Elementary School is larger 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 3 with 130 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 117, against an average of 125 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 130 in grade 3 and 127 in grade 5.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 83.4% here and 84.1% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II. Hispanic students are next, at 11.5%. 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 89.8% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 60.2% 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

With 22 full-time-equivalent teachers for 374 students, Berkeley Elementary School has 17 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 374 students would have about 30.4 teachers, so Berkeley Elementary School has 8.4 fewer.

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

Location

Berkeley 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 Walnut Grove Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 103 other elementary schools, 43 of them within 5 miles.

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