Traditional School

Size

Traditional School is the 5th largest of Pattonville R-III School District's 6 elementary schools; its 392 students are 6.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 428; Traditional 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 1 with 50 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 33, against an average of 44 per grade. This year grade 8 has 30% fewer students than kindergarten (33 against 47). 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

The largest group is White students: 47.7% here and 35.2% across Pattonville R-III. Black students are next, at 23.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

25.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 45.2% across Pattonville R-III and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 9.7% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 25.77 full-time-equivalent teachers for 392 students, Traditional School has 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 392 students would have about 31.9 teachers, so Traditional School has 6.1 fewer.

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

Location

Traditional School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Bridgeway Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 111 other elementary schools, 21 of them within 5 miles.

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