Stix Early Childhood Center

Size

Of the 42 elementary schools in St. Louis City School District, Stix Early Childhood Center is the largest, with 2.6% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 232; Stix Early Childhood 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 154 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 98, against an average of 118 per grade. This year grade 2 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (98 against 121). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 154 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 75.4% here and 74.8% across St. Louis City. White students are next, at 15%. Students from 6 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. 41.5% 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 35 full-time-equivalent teachers for 472 students, Stix Early Childhood Center has 13.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 472 students would have about 38.4 teachers, so Stix Early Childhood Center has 3.4 fewer.

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

Location

Stix Early Childhood Center is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Adams Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 137 other elementary schools, 72 of them within 5 miles.

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