South Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Jefferson City School District, South Elementary School is the 8th largest, with 3.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 315 students, so South Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 kindergarten with 58 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 47, against an average of 50 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (47 against 58). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 38.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Jefferson City (19.3%). White students are next, at 33.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 55.7% across Jefferson City and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 44% 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

South Elementary School has 26.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 302 students would have about 24.6 teachers, so South Elementary School has 2.2 more.

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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Thorpe J. Gordon Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. There are 7 elementary schools within 5 miles and 12 within 10 miles.

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