Central Elementary School

Size

Central Elementary School is the 2nd largest of Francis Howell R-III School District's 10 elementary schools; its 865 students are 5.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 691 students, so Central 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 4 with 160 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 16, against an average of 124 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 136 in kindergarten and 146 in grade 5. It also enrolls 16 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 65.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across Francis Howell R-III (73.8%). Black students are next, at 16.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

31.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 16.3% across Francis Howell R-III and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 14.1% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Central Elementary School has 63.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 865 students would have about 70.3 teachers, so Central Elementary School has 6.8 fewer.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Castlio Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 15 elementary schools within 5 miles and 48 within 10 miles.

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