Mary Paxton Keeley Elementary School

Size

Of the 21 elementary schools in Columbia 93 School District, Mary Paxton Keeley Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 3.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 343; Mary Paxton Keeley Elementary School is larger 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 4 with 116 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 85, against an average of 103 per grade. This year grade 5 has 24% more students than kindergarten (113 against 91). 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: 51.7% here and 51.8% across Columbia 93. Black students are next, at 20.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

34.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.7% across Columbia 93 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 15% 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 40.04 full-time-equivalent teachers for 619 students, Mary Paxton Keeley Elementary School has 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 619 students would have about 50.3 teachers, so Mary Paxton Keeley Elementary School has 10.3 fewer.

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

Location

Mary Paxton Keeley Elementary School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Fairview Elementary School, 1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 19 other elementary schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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