Commons Lane Elementary School

Size

Of the 13 elementary schools in Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District, Commons Lane Elementary School is the 5th largest, with 4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1 miles away and have a median of 350 students, so Commons Lane 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 132 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 4, against an average of 88 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 129 in kindergarten and 132 in grade 2. It also enrolls 4 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 87.7% of enrollment, about the same share as across Ferguson-Florissant R-II (84.1%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.8% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 59.3% 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

Commons Lane Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 351 students would have about 28.5 teachers, so Commons Lane Elementary School has 3.5 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 Halls Ferry Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 40 elementary schools within 5 miles and 81 within 10 miles.

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