Center Elementary School

Size

Center Elementary School is the largest of Center 58 School District's 4 elementary schools; its 314 students are 13.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 360; Center 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 grade 2 with 63 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 46, against an average of 52 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% more students than kindergarten (54 against 46). 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

The largest group is Black students: 65.6% here and 59.9% across Center 58. Hispanic students are next, at 16.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.9% across Center 58 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 53.5% 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

With 25.61 full-time-equivalent teachers for 314 students, Center Elementary School has 12.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 314 students would have about 25.5 teachers, so Center Elementary School has about as many as that.

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

Location

Center Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Academy for Integrated Arts, 1 miles away in Academy for Integrated Arts. Within 10 miles there are 72 other elementary schools, 24 of them within 5 miles.

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