Robert H. Sperreng Middle School

Size

Of the 2 middle schools in Lindbergh Schools, Robert H. Sperreng Middle School is the largest, with 12.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.8 miles away and have a median of 563 students, so Robert H. Sperreng Middle 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 7 with 337 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 281, against an average of 314 per grade. This year grade 8 has 15% more students than grade 6 (323 against 281). 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 80.2% of enrollment, about the same share as across Lindbergh Schools (82.4%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

17.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 13.8% across Lindbergh Schools and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 7.1% 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

Robert H. Sperreng Middle School has 61.26 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 941 students would have about 72.4 teachers, so Robert H. Sperreng Middle School has 11.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri middle schools (13).

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 middle school is Washington Middle School, 1.8 miles away in Mehlville R-IX School District. There are 10 middle schools within 5 miles and 30 within 10 miles.

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