Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy

Size

Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy is the 19th largest of St. Louis City School District's 42 elementary schools; its 260 students are 1.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.9 miles away and have a median of 293 students, so Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy 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 3 with 52 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 11, against an average of 37 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% more students than kindergarten (48 against 42). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 11 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 49.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across St. Louis City (11.7%). Black students are next, at 28.8%. 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 100% across St. Louis City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 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

Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy has 22.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 260 students would have about 21.1 teachers, so Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy has 1.7 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 Premier Charter School, 0.3 miles away in Premier Charter School. There are 67 elementary schools within 5 miles and 129 within 10 miles.

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