Wilder Elementary School

Size

Of the 33 elementary schools in Springfield R-XII School District, Wilder Elementary School is the 18th largest, with 1.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 333 students, so Wilder 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 5 with 63 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 20, against an average of 47 per grade. This year grade 5 has 62% more students than kindergarten (63 against 39). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 20 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 73.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Springfield R-XII (68.4%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

39.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.6% across Springfield R-XII and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 18.7% 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

Wilder Elementary School has 21.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 326 students would have about 26.5 teachers, so Wilder Elementary School has 5 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 city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Pershing Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 16 elementary schools within 5 miles and 44 within 10 miles.

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