Wyland Elementary School

Size

Of the 6 elementary schools in Ritenour School District, Wyland Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 8.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 414 students, so Wyland 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 104 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 72, against an average of 91 per grade. This year grade 5 has 31% more students than kindergarten (94 against 72). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 38.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Ritenour (41.7%). Hispanic students are next, at 29.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Ritenour and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 34.7% 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

Wyland Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 545 students would have about 44.3 teachers, so Wyland Elementary School has 9.3 fewer.

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

Location

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 Barbara Jordan Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in University City School District. There are 35 elementary schools within 5 miles and 155 within 10 miles.

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