Dewey Sch.-Internat'l. Studies

Size

Dewey Sch.-Internat'l. Studies is the 7th largest of St. Louis City School District's 42 elementary schools; its 337 students are 1.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 349 students, so Dewey Sch.-Internat'l. Studies 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 5 with 59 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 40, against an average of 48 per grade. This year grade 5 has 34% more students than kindergarten (59 against 44). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 41 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 86.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across St. Louis City (74.8%). 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 100% across St. Louis City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 57.6% 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

Dewey Sch.-Internat'l. Studies has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 337 students would have about 27.4 teachers, so Dewey Sch.-Internat'l. Studies has about as many as that.

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 Wilkinson Early Childhood Center, 0.6 miles away in the same district. There are 62 elementary schools within 5 miles and 146 within 10 miles.

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