Busch Ms Character Athletics

Size

Of the 8 middle schools in St. Louis City School District, Busch Ms Character Athletics is the 4th largest, with 2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.4 miles away and have a median of 338 students, so Busch Ms Character Athletics 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 6 with 127 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 110, against an average of 120 per grade. This year grade 8 has 13% fewer students than grade 6 (110 against 127). 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 52.1% of enrollment, a lower share than across St. Louis City (74.8%). White students are next, at 22.2%. Students from 6 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 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 44.6% 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

Busch Ms Character Athletics has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 361 students would have about 27.8 teachers, so Busch Ms Character Athletics has 1.8 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri middle schools (13).

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 middle school is Rogers Middle School, 1.1 miles away in Affton 101 School District. There are 13 middle schools within 5 miles and 37 within 10 miles.

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