Scuola Vita Nuova Charter

Size

Scuola Vita Nuova Charter is the only school in Scuola Vita Nuova, so its 363 students are the district's whole enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 396; Scuola Vita Nuova Charter is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 47 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 34, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 8 has 15% fewer students than kindergarten (34 against 40). 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 Hispanic students: 43.8% here and 9% across Missouri public schools. Black students are next, at 42.7%. 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 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 37.5% 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. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 24 full-time-equivalent teachers for 363 students, Scuola Vita Nuova Charter has 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 363 students would have about 29.5 teachers, so Scuola Vita Nuova Charter has 5.5 fewer.

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

Location

Scuola Vita Nuova Charter is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Garfield Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Kansas City 33 School District. Within 10 miles there are 91 other elementary schools, 32 of them within 5 miles.

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