Pershing Elementary School

Size

Pershing Elementary School is the 12th largest of St. Joseph School District's 13 elementary schools; its 285 students are 2.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 410; Pershing Elementary School is smaller 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 1 with 51 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 33, against an average of 41 per grade. This year grade 6 has 14% more students than kindergarten (40 against 35). 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: 70.9% here and 62% across St. Joseph. Hispanic students are next, at 11.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.4% across St. Joseph and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 24.9% 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 20.57 full-time-equivalent teachers for 285 students, Pershing Elementary School has 13.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 285 students would have about 23.2 teachers, so Pershing Elementary School has 2.6 fewer.

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

Location

Pershing Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Field Elementary School, 1.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 16 other elementary schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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