Indian Creek Elementary School

Size

Indian Creek Elementary School is the 2nd largest of Center 58 School District's 4 elementary schools; its 285 students are 12.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 325; Indian Creek 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 1 with 64 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 34, against an average of 48 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (42 against 52). 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: 70.9% here and 59.9% across Center 58. Hispanic students are next, at 14%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.9% across Center 58 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 44.2% 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 21.54 full-time-equivalent teachers for 285 students, Indian Creek Elementary School has 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 285 students would have about 23.2 teachers, so Indian Creek Elementary School has 1.7 fewer.

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

Location

Indian Creek Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Boone Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 59 other elementary schools, 19 of them within 5 miles.

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