South City

Size

South City is the largest of Confluence Academies' 3 elementary schools; its 838 students are 34.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1 miles away with a median enrollment of 211; South City is larger than most of them.

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 3 with 91 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 60, against an average of 84 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 90 in kindergarten and 87 in grade 8. It also enrolls 60 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 55.6% here and 22.1% across Confluence Academies. Black students are next, at 39.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

99.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 99.9% across Confluence Academies and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 40.7% 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 71.4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 838 students, South City has 11.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 838 students would have about 68.1 teachers, so South City has 3.3 more.

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

Location

South City is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Meramec Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in St. Louis City School District. Within 10 miles there are 113 other elementary schools, 51 of them within 5 miles.

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