Highland Elementary School

Size

Highland Elementary School is the 8th largest of Riverview Gardens School District's 9 elementary schools; its 242 students are 4.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 298; Highland 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 5 with 45 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 36, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% more students than kindergarten (45 against 37). 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: 95% here and 96.6% across Riverview Gardens.

61.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.4% across Riverview Gardens and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 58.3% 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 17 full-time-equivalent teachers for 242 students, Highland Elementary School has 14.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 242 students would have about 19.7 teachers, so Highland Elementary School has 2.7 fewer.

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

Location

Highland 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 Glasgow Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 92 other elementary schools, 23 of them within 5 miles.

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