Columbia Elementary Comm. Education Center

Size

Of the 42 elementary schools in St. Louis City School District, Columbia Elementary Comm. Education Center is the 24th largest, with 1.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 152 students, so Columbia Elementary Comm. Education Center 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 pre-K with 40 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 1, against an average of 27 per grade. This year grade 6 has 97% fewer students than kindergarten (1 against 36). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 40 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 97.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across St. Louis City (74.8%).

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. 72.7% 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

Columbia Elementary Comm. Education Center has 14.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 216 students would have about 17.6 teachers, so Columbia Elementary Comm. Education Center has 3.1 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is George Washington Carver Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 56 elementary schools within 5 miles and 128 within 10 miles.

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