Shaw Visual/Perf. Arts Center

Size

Of the 42 elementary schools in St. Louis City School District, Shaw Visual/Perf. Arts Center is the 15th largest, with 1.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 345; Shaw Visual/Perf. Arts Center is smaller 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 5 with 62 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 19, against an average of 39 per grade. This year grade 5 has 107% more students than kindergarten (62 against 30). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 19 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 88.2% here and 74.8% across St. Louis City. Students from 6 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 St. Louis City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 57.4% 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 26 full-time-equivalent teachers for 272 students, Shaw Visual/Perf. Arts Center has 10.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 272 students would have about 22.1 teachers, so Shaw Visual/Perf. Arts Center has 3.9 more.

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

Location

Shaw Visual/Perf. Arts Center is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Premier Charter School, 0.7 miles away in Premier Charter School. Within 10 miles there are 134 other elementary schools, 73 of them within 5 miles.

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