Old North Academy

Size

Old North Academy is the 2nd largest of Confluence Academies' 3 elementary schools; its 448 students are 18.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 169; Old North Academy is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 62 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 18, against an average of 45 per grade. This year grade 8 has 21% more students than kindergarten (41 against 34). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 18 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 97.8% here and 70.3% across Confluence Academies. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

99.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 99.9% across Confluence Academies and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 66.7% 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 37.2 full-time-equivalent teachers for 448 students, Old North Academy has 12 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 448 students would have about 36.4 teachers, so Old North Academy 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

Old North Academy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Ames Visual/Perf. Arts, 0.1 miles away in St. Louis City School District. Within 10 miles there are 112 other elementary schools, 45 of them within 5 miles.

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