Shoal Creek Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Liberty 53 School District, Shoal Creek Elementary School is the largest, with 6.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 416 students, so Shoal Creek Elementary 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 4 with 163 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 100, against an average of 133 per grade. This year grade 5 has 62% more students than kindergarten (162 against 100). 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 76.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Liberty 53 (73.4%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

7.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 23.8% across Liberty 53 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 3.3% 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

Shoal Creek Elementary School has 53.94 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 795 students would have about 64.6 teachers, so Shoal Creek Elementary School has 10.7 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Liberty Oaks Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 16 elementary schools within 5 miles and 50 within 10 miles.

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