Prairie View Elementary School

Size

Of the 12 elementary schools in Wentzville R-IV School District, Prairie View Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 3.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 539 students, so Prairie View 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 3 with 129 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 101, against an average of 116 per grade. This year grade 5 has 21% more students than kindergarten (122 against 101). 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 66.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Wentzville R-IV (75%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

24.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 16.2% across Wentzville R-IV and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 13.2% 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

Prairie View Elementary School has 51.04 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 696 students would have about 56.6 teachers, so Prairie View Elementary School has 5.6 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Crossroads Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 17 elementary schools within 5 miles and 34 within 10 miles.

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