ARMSTRONG ELEM.

ARMSTRONG ELEM. is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in HAZELWOOD, Missouri, run under HAZELWOOD, with 361 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

ARMSTRONG ELEM. is one of 31 schools operated by HAZELWOOD, a district that enrolls 16,321 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ARMSTRONG ELEM. shows that the largest single group is Black, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ARMSTRONG ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 58.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) logs that median household earnings sit near $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), ARMSTRONG ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HAZELWOOD WEST HIGH, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARMSTRONG ELEM.. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARMSTRONG ELEM. ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 58.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARMSTRONG ELEM. has decreased 20%, going from 452 students in 2018 to 361 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 21% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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