Trautwein Elementary School

Size

Trautwein Elementary School is the 9th largest of Mehlville R-IX School District's 11 elementary schools; its 369 students are 3.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 435; Trautwein 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 3 with 66 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 54, against an average of 62 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 62 in kindergarten and 64 in grade 5.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 68% here and 78.8% across Mehlville R-IX. Black students are next, at 16.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

42.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.1% across Mehlville R-IX and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 19.2% 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 28.86 full-time-equivalent teachers for 369 students, Trautwein Elementary School has 12.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 369 students would have about 30 teachers, so Trautwein Elementary School has 1.1 fewer.

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

Location

Trautwein Elementary 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 Kennerly Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in Lindbergh Schools. Within 10 miles there are 78 other elementary schools, 23 of them within 5 miles.

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