Locust St Expressive Arts Elementary School

Size

Of the 21 elementary schools in Columbia 93 School District, Locust St Expressive Arts Elementary School is the 16th largest, with 1.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 325 students, so Locust St Expressive Arts 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 51 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 15, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 5 has 16% fewer students than kindergarten (37 against 44). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 15 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 50.2% of enrollment, about the same share as across Columbia 93 (51.8%). Black students are next, at 20.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

45.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.7% across Columbia 93 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 17.7% 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

Locust St Expressive Arts Elementary School has 22.69 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 283 students would have about 23 teachers, so Locust St Expressive Arts 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 city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Thomas Benton Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 16 elementary schools within 5 miles and 20 within 10 miles.

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