Eliot Battle Elementary School

Size

Eliot Battle Elementary School is the 12th largest of Columbia 93 School District's 21 elementary schools; its 344 students are 1.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 4.5 miles away and have a median of 388 students, so Eliot Battle 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 3 with 76 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 41, against an average of 57 per grade. This year grade 5 has 32% fewer students than kindergarten (41 against 60). 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 52% of enrollment, a higher share than across Columbia 93 (21.9%). White students are next, at 25.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.7% across Columbia 93 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 43.6% 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

Eliot Battle Elementary School has 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 344 students would have about 28 teachers, so Eliot Battle Elementary School has 5.7 more.

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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Two Mile Prairie Elementary School, 3.3 miles away in the same district. There are 5 elementary schools within 5 miles and 19 within 10 miles.

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