Webster Primary Center

Size

Webster Primary Center is the largest of Webb City R-VII School District's 7 elementary schools; its 356 students are 7.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 227; Webster Primary Center 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 1 with 189 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 167, against an average of 178 per grade. This year grade 2 has 12% fewer students than grade 1 (167 against 189). 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: 71.3% here and 79.1% across Webb City R-VII. Hispanic students are next, at 11.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

61.8% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 48.1% across Webb City R-VII and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 25.8% 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 24.63 full-time-equivalent teachers for 356 students, Webster Primary Center has 14.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 356 students would have about 28.9 teachers, so Webster Primary Center has 4.3 fewer.

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

Location

Webster Primary Center is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, small. Madge T. James Kind. Center (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 24 other elementary schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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