Russell Elementary School

Size

Of the 19 elementary schools in Hazelwood School District, Russell Elementary School is the 9th largest, with 2.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 366; Russell 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 2 with 69 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 25, against an average of 53 per grade. This year grade 5 has 42% more students than kindergarten (61 against 43). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 25 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 62.7% here and 82.1% across Hazelwood. White students are next, at 21.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

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

With 27.15 full-time-equivalent teachers for 373 students, Russell Elementary School has 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 373 students would have about 30.3 teachers, so Russell Elementary School has 3.2 fewer.

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

Location

Russell Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is McNair Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 85 other elementary schools, 24 of them within 5 miles.

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