Union Chapel Elementary School

Size

Union Chapel Elementary School is the largest of Park Hill School District's 11 elementary schools; its 609 students are 5.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 4 miles away and have a median of 444 students, so Union Chapel Elementary School 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 grade 4 with 111 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 88, against an average of 102 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% more students than kindergarten (109 against 96). 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

White students are the largest group, at 74.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Park Hill (61.5%). Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

14.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 29% across Park Hill and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 5.9% 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

Union Chapel Elementary School has 36.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 609 students would have about 49.5 teachers, so Union Chapel Elementary School has 13.4 fewer.

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

Location

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 Hawthorn Elementary School, 2 miles away in the same district. There are 6 elementary schools within 5 miles and 25 within 10 miles.

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