Pickett Elementary School

Size

Of the 13 elementary schools in St. Joseph School District, Pickett Elementary School is the smallest, with 2.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 393 students, so Pickett 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 kindergarten with 39 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 30, against an average of 36 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 39 in kindergarten and 37 in grade 6.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 66.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across St. Joseph (62%). Two or more races students are next, at 16%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% 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. 31.6% 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

Pickett Elementary School has 22.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 250 students would have about 20.3 teachers, so Pickett Elementary School has 2 more.

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 Skaith Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. There are 10 elementary schools within 5 miles and 15 within 10 miles.

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