Jefferson Elementary School

Size

Of the 5 elementary schools in Normandy Schools Collaborative, Jefferson Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 8.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 213; Jefferson 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 4 with 51 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 33, against an average of 43 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% more students than grade 1 (37 against 33). 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: 92.5% here and 89.1% across Normandy Schools Collaborative. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 99.9% across Normandy Schools Collaborative and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 70.6% 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 13 full-time-equivalent teachers for 214 students, Jefferson Elementary School has 16.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 214 students would have about 17.4 teachers, so Jefferson Elementary School has 4.4 fewer.

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 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 Normandy Early Learning Center, 0.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 152 other elementary schools, 49 of them within 5 miles.

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