ALPHA HART LEWIS

ALPHA HART LEWIS is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in COLUMBIA, Missouri, run under COLUMBIA 93, with 468 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so ALPHA HART LEWIS sits 49% larger than that benchmark.

COLUMBIA 93 runs 34 schools in total, collectively educating 18,640 students. ALPHA HART LEWIS is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ALPHA HART LEWIS records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Black, 16% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian. By comparison, Boone County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ALPHA HART LEWIS has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Boone County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, ALPHA HART LEWIS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Boone County reports that median household income runs about $72,758, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Boone County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), ALPHA HART LEWIS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JUVENILE JUSTICE CTR., roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALPHA HART LEWIS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 67.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 447 students in 2018 compared to 468 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 36% to 24% across the same window.

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