Wohlwend Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in Mehlville R-IX School District, Wohlwend Elementary School is the 6th largest, with 4.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3 miles away and have a median of 372 students, so Wohlwend 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 86 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 58, against an average of 68 per grade. This year grade 5 has 41% more students than kindergarten (86 against 61). 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 86.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Mehlville R-IX (78.8%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

28.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.1% across Mehlville R-IX and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 14.4% 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

Wohlwend Elementary School has 27.84 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 409 students would have about 33.3 teachers, so Wohlwend Elementary School has 5.5 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 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 Point Elementary School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. There are 10 elementary schools within 5 miles and 52 within 10 miles.

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