ANTONIA ELEM.

ANTONIA ELEM. is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in IMPERIAL, Missouri, run under FOX C-6, teacheing 452 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so ANTONIA ELEM. sits 43% larger than that benchmark.

FOX C-6 comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 10,258 students; ANTONIA ELEM. is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ANTONIA ELEM. reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 23% of students at ANTONIA ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Jefferson County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, ANTONIA ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +11.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), of which ANTONIA ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: CLYDE HAMRICK ELEM., around 2.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ANTONIA ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 537 students in 2018 compared to 452 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.