Townsend Elementary School

Size

Townsend Elementary School is the 13th largest of Hazelwood School District's 19 elementary schools; its 351 students are 2.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 341 students, so Townsend 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 grade 5 with 65 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 18, against an average of 50 per grade. This year grade 5 has 25% more students than kindergarten (65 against 52). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 18 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 93.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Hazelwood (82.1%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Hazelwood and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 57.5% 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

Townsend Elementary School has 26.23 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 351 students would have about 28.5 teachers, so Townsend Elementary School has 2.3 fewer.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Arrowpoint Elementary School, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 28 elementary schools within 5 miles and 67 within 10 miles.

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