Hosea Elementary School

Size

Hosea Elementary School is the 5th largest of St. Joseph School District's 13 elementary schools; its 422 students are 4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 4.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 393; Hosea 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 2 with 84 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 60, against an average of 70 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 63 in kindergarten and 60 in grade 5.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 65.4% here and 62% across St. Joseph. Hispanic students are next, at 21.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.4% across St. Joseph and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 41.9% 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 32.28 full-time-equivalent teachers for 422 students, Hosea Elementary School has 13.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 422 students would have about 34.3 teachers, so Hosea Elementary School has 2 fewer.

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

Location

Hosea Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Hyde Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 14 other elementary schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

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