John Ridgeway Elementary School

Size

John Ridgeway Elementary School is the 20th largest of Columbia 93 School District's 21 elementary schools; its 227 students are 1.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1 miles away with a median enrollment of 325; John Ridgeway Elementary School is smaller 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 kindergarten with 40 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 34, against an average of 38 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% fewer students than kindergarten (34 against 40). 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 White students: 69.2% here and 51.8% across Columbia 93. Two or more races students are next, at 14.1%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

15% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.7% across Columbia 93 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 5.7% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 15.86 full-time-equivalent teachers for 227 students, John Ridgeway Elementary School has 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 227 students would have about 18.5 teachers, so John Ridgeway Elementary School has 2.6 fewer.

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

Location

John Ridgeway Elementary School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Ulysses S. Grant Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 20 other elementary schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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