Buder Elementary School

Size

Buder Elementary School is the 5th largest of St. Louis City School District's 42 elementary schools; its 359 students are 2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 331; Buder Elementary School 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 pre-K with 78 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 40, against an average of 51 per grade. This year grade 5 has 13% fewer students than kindergarten (40 against 46). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 78 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 36.8% here and 11.7% across St. Louis City. Black students are next, at 35.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across St. Louis City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 35.7% 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 34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 359 students, Buder Elementary School has 10.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 359 students would have about 29.2 teachers, so Buder Elementary School has 4.8 more.

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

Location

Buder Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Betty Wheeler Classical Junior Academy, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 126 other elementary schools, 64 of them within 5 miles.

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