Danforth Elementary School

Size

Danforth Elementary School is the 6th largest of Riverview Gardens School District's 9 elementary schools; its 274 students are 5.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 310; Danforth 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 kindergarten with 52 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 41, against an average of 46 per grade. This year grade 5 has 17% fewer students than kindergarten (43 against 52). 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: 96.4% here and 96.6% across Riverview Gardens. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

59.1% 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 15.5 full-time-equivalent teachers for 274 students, Danforth Elementary School has 17.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 274 students would have about 22.3 teachers, so Danforth 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

Danforth Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Earl Nance Sr. Elementary School, 1 miles away in St. Louis City School District. Within 10 miles there are 120 other elementary schools, 38 of them within 5 miles.

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