Oak Grove Elementary School

Size

Oak Grove Elementary School is the 2nd largest of St. Joseph School District's 13 elementary schools; its 502 students are 4.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.4 miles away and have a median of 340 students, so Oak Grove 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 kindergarten with 80 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 63, against an average of 72 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 80 in kindergarten and 76 in grade 6.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 60.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across St. Joseph (62%). Hispanic students are next, at 12.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

32.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.4% across St. Joseph and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 15.7% 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

Oak Grove Elementary School has 34.94 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 502 students would have about 40.8 teachers, so Oak Grove Elementary School has 5.9 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 city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Coleman Elementary School, 2.4 miles away in the same district. There are 11 elementary schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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