Walnut Grove Elementary School

Size

Walnut Grove Elementary School is the 4th largest of Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District's 13 elementary schools; its 368 students are 4.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 293; Walnut Grove 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 2 with 126 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 15, against an average of 92 per grade. This year grade 2 has 15% more students than kindergarten (126 against 110). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 15 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 90.2% here and 84.1% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.8% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 69% 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 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers for 368 students, Walnut Grove Elementary School has 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 368 students would have about 29.9 teachers, so Walnut Grove Elementary School has 4.4 fewer.

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

Location

Walnut Grove 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 Berkeley Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 101 other elementary schools, 47 of them within 5 miles.

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