Jefferson Elementary School

Size

Of the 5 elementary schools in Cape Girardeau 63 School District, Jefferson Elementary School is the largest, with 11.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 4.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 329; Jefferson 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 pre-K with 133 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 61, against an average of 82 per grade. This year grade 4 has 24% fewer students than kindergarten (61 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 133 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 45.1% here and 33.4% across Cape Girardeau 63. White students are next, at 27.5%. 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 100% across Cape Girardeau 63 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 54.3% 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 45.7 full-time-equivalent teachers for 494 students, Jefferson Elementary School has 10.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 494 students would have about 40.2 teachers, so Jefferson Elementary School has 5.5 more.

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

Location

Jefferson Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Alma Schrader Elementary School, 2.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 9 other elementary schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

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