Marvin Elementary School

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in Ritenour School District, Marvin Elementary School is the largest, with 8.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 473 students, so Marvin 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 kindergarten with 107 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 82, against an average of 94 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% fewer students than kindergarten (83 against 107). 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 41.2% of enrollment, about the same share as across Ritenour (41.7%). Hispanic students are next, at 32.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Ritenour and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 36% 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

Marvin Elementary School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 561 students would have about 45.6 teachers, so Marvin Elementary School has 9.6 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 Holman Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District. There are 34 elementary schools within 5 miles and 139 within 10 miles.

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