Pioneer Trail Elementary School

Size

Pioneer Trail Elementary School is the 2nd largest of Jefferson City School District's 11 elementary schools; its 396 students are 4.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 5.3 miles away and have a median of 315 students, so Pioneer Trail 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 5 with 81 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 55, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 5 has 47% more students than kindergarten (81 against 55). 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

White students are the largest group, at 71.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Jefferson City (60%). Two or more races students are next, at 10.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

50.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 55.7% across Jefferson City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 19.9% 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

Pioneer Trail Elementary School has 35.14 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 396 students would have about 32.2 teachers, so Pioneer Trail Elementary School has 2.9 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 suburb, small, which means it is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Clarence Lawson Elementary School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. There are 4 elementary schools within 5 miles and 11 within 10 miles.

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