Dale M Thompson/Trails West S

Size

Of the 25 schools in MO Schools for the Severely Disabled, Dale M Thompson/Trails West S is the 14th largest, with 3.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest schools are a median 17.4 miles away and have a median of 34 students, so Dale M Thompson/Trails West S is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as a special education school, one that focuses mainly on students with disabilities.

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 12 with 10 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 1, against an average of 3 per grade. This year grade 12 has 400% more students than grade 3 (10 against 2). 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 40.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across MO Schools for the Severely Disabled (9%). White students are next, at 40.9%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

50% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 58.4% across MO Schools for the Severely Disabled and a median of 51.8% for Missouri schools. 36.4% 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

Dale M Thompson/Trails West S has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 5.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri school ratio of 5.5, a school with 22 students would have about 4 teachers, so Dale M Thompson/Trails West S has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri schools (5.5).

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 school is Lakeview Woods School, 8.5 miles away in the same district. There are 0 schools within 5 miles and 3 within 10 miles.

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