Santa Fe Elementary School

Size

Santa Fe Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Hickman Mills C-1 School District's 7 elementary schools; its 356 students are 8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 341; Santa Fe 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 kindergarten with 68 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 48, against an average of 59 per grade. This year grade 5 has 29% fewer students than kindergarten (48 against 68). 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 Black students: 70.5% here and 59.9% across Hickman Mills C-1. Hispanic students are next, at 14.6%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Hickman Mills C-1 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 45.8% 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 24.88 full-time-equivalent teachers for 356 students, Santa Fe Elementary School has 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 356 students would have about 28.9 teachers, so Santa Fe Elementary School has 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

Santa Fe Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Dobbs Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 84 other elementary schools, 24 of them within 5 miles.

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