Prairie Point Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Park Hill School District, Prairie Point Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 3.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 458; Prairie Point Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 88 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 62, against an average of 73 per grade. This year grade 5 has 13% fewer students than kindergarten (65 against 75). 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: 66.8% here and 61.5% across Park Hill. Hispanic students are next, at 12.6%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

33% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 29% across Park Hill and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 11.4% 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

With 32.13 full-time-equivalent teachers for 437 students, Prairie Point Elementary School has 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 437 students would have about 35.5 teachers, so Prairie Point Elementary School has 3.4 fewer.

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

Location

Prairie Point Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Alfred L Renner Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 33 other elementary schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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