ASPIRE ACADEMY

ASPIRE ACADEMY is a very small K-5 school in ST. LOUIS, Missouri, run under CONFLUENCE ACADEMIES. The school enrolls 112 students in grades pre-K through 2. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 64% below typical.

ASPIRE ACADEMY is one of 6 schools operated by CONFLUENCE ACADEMIES, a district that enrolls 2,460 students overall.

In terms of who attends, ASPIRE ACADEMY records that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Louis city) reports that median household earnings sit near $56,160, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which ASPIRE ACADEMY is one.

WALBRIDGE ELEM. COMMUNITY ED. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. ASPIRE ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ASPIRE ACADEMY has edged down 72%, going from 401 students in 2018 to 112 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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