John Weldon Elementary School

Size

John Weldon Elementary School is the 8th largest of Francis Howell R-III School District's 10 elementary schools; its 640 students are 3.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3 miles away and have a median of 467 students, so John Weldon 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 grade 3 with 115 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 17, against an average of 91 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (108 against 98). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 17 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 73.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across Francis Howell R-III (73.8%). Asian students are next, at 12%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

9.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 16.3% across Francis Howell R-III and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 3.9% 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

John Weldon Elementary School has 48.58 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 640 students would have about 52 teachers, so John Weldon Elementary School has 3.4 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Pheasant Point Elementary School, 2 miles away in Fort Zumwalt School District. There are 13 elementary schools within 5 miles and 36 within 10 miles.

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