Harvest Ridge Elementary School

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Francis Howell R-III School District, Harvest Ridge Elementary School is the 9th largest, with 3.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 3.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 377; Harvest Ridge Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 2 with 108 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 73, against an average of 95 per grade. This year grade 5 has 48% more students than kindergarten (108 against 73). 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 White students: 53.1% here and 73.8% across Francis Howell R-III. Black students are next, at 17.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

23.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 16.3% across Francis Howell R-III and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 8.9% 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

With 51 full-time-equivalent teachers for 572 students, Harvest Ridge Elementary School has 11.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 572 students would have about 46.5 teachers, so Harvest Ridge Elementary School has 4.5 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

Harvest Ridge Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Becky-David Elementary School, 2.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 59 other elementary schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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