STEAM Academy Middle School

Size

STEAM Academy Middle School is the smallest of Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District's 5 middle schools; its 245 students are 2.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3 miles away with a median enrollment of 624; STEAM Academy Middle School is smaller 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 7 with 84 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 80, against an average of 82 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 81 in grade 6 and 80 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 66.5% here and 84.1% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II. White students are next, at 16.7%. 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 89.8% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 33.5% 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 18 full-time-equivalent teachers for 245 students, STEAM Academy Middle School has 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 245 students would have about 18.8 teachers, so STEAM Academy Middle 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 middle schools (13).

Location

STEAM Academy Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Johnson Wabash 6th Grade Center, 2.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 27 other middle schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

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