Sigel Elementary Comm. Education Center

Size

Sigel Elementary Comm. Education Center is the 26th largest of St. Louis City School District's 42 elementary schools; its 206 students are 1.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 158; Sigel Elementary Comm. Education Center 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 pre-K with 34 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 17, against an average of 26 per grade. This year grade 6 has 24% fewer students than kindergarten (19 against 25). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 34 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 82% here and 74.8% across St. Louis City. 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 St. Louis City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 63.6% 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 19 full-time-equivalent teachers for 206 students, Sigel Elementary Comm. Education Center has 10.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 206 students would have about 16.7 teachers, so Sigel Elementary Comm. Education Center has 2.3 more.

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

Location

Sigel Elementary Comm. Education Center is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Momentum Fox Park, 0.2 miles away in Momentum Academy. Within 10 miles there are 114 other elementary schools, 59 of them within 5 miles.

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