St Louis Language Immersion School

Size

St Louis Language Immersion School is the only school in St. Louis Language Immersion School, so its 493 students are the district's whole enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 0.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 168; St Louis Language Immersion School 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 kindergarten with 86 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 20, against an average of 49 per grade. This year grade 8 has 72% fewer students than kindergarten (24 against 86). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 28 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 66.9% here and 15.4% across Missouri public schools. Hispanic students are next, at 17%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

49.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 26.6% 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. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 41 full-time-equivalent teachers for 493 students, St Louis Language Immersion School has 12 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 493 students would have about 40.1 teachers, so St Louis Language Immersion School has about as many as that.

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

Location

St Louis Language Immersion School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Atlas Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Atlas Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 112 other elementary schools, 53 of them within 5 miles.

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