F. P. Tillman Elementary School

Size

Of the 5 elementary schools in Kirkwood R-VII School District, F. P. Tillman Elementary School is the smallest, with 7.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 385 students, so F. P. Tillman 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 4 with 85 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 59, against an average of 76 per grade. This year grade 5 has 42% more students than kindergarten (84 against 59). 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

White students are the largest group, at 78.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Kirkwood R-VII (78.6%). Two or more races students are next, at 10.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

6.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 8.2% across Kirkwood R-VII and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 3.7% 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

F. P. Tillman Elementary School has 31.83 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 457 students would have about 37.2 teachers, so F. P. Tillman Elementary School has 5.4 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 W. W. Keysor Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 27 elementary schools within 5 miles and 137 within 10 miles.

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