Joseph L Mudd Elementary School

Size

Joseph L Mudd Elementary School is the 11th largest of Fort Zumwalt School District's 16 elementary schools; its 412 students are 2.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 444; Joseph L Mudd 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 146 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 125, against an average of 137 per grade. This year grade 2 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (125 against 141). 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: 72.8% here and 72.9% across Fort Zumwalt School District. Hispanic students are next, at 11.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

36.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 19.7% across Fort Zumwalt School District and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 16.5% 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 32.82 full-time-equivalent teachers for 412 students, Joseph L Mudd Elementary School has 12.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 412 students would have about 33.5 teachers, so Joseph L Mudd Elementary School has about as many as that.

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

Location

Joseph L Mudd 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 Forest Park Elementary School, 0.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 36 other elementary schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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