Lewis and Clark Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Riverview Gardens School District, Lewis and Clark Elementary School is the smallest, with 2.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 311 students, so Lewis and Clark 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 grade 3 with 28 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 18, against an average of 23 per grade. This year grade 5 has 28% more students than kindergarten (23 against 18). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 97.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Riverview Gardens (96.6%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

67.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.4% across Riverview Gardens and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 65% 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

Lewis and Clark Elementary School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 137 students would have about 11.1 teachers, so Lewis and Clark 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

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 Gibson Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 38 elementary schools within 5 miles and 104 within 10 miles.

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