Lindbergh Elementary School

Size

Lindbergh Elementary School is the 4th largest of St. Joseph School District's 13 elementary schools; its 431 students are 4.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 375; Lindbergh 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 3 with 77 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 62, against an average of 72 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (68 against 62). 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: 57.5% here and 62% across St. Joseph. Two or more races students are next, at 17.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.4% across St. Joseph and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 52.7% 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 36.22 full-time-equivalent teachers for 431 students, Lindbergh Elementary School has 11.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 431 students would have about 35 teachers, so Lindbergh Elementary School has 1.2 more.

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

Location

Lindbergh Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Field Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 15 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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