BALLWIN ELEM.

BALLWIN ELEM. is an average-sized K-5 school in BALLWIN, Missouri, overseen by ROCKWOOD R-VI. The school educates 426 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 35% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

ROCKWOOD R-VI runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 19,597 students. BALLWIN ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, BALLWIN ELEM. logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 13% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. Compared to St. Louis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BALLWIN ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.1%.

Zooming out to the county, St. Louis County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), BALLWIN ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

SELVIDGE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BALLWIN ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BALLWIN ELEM. has fell 15%, going from 500 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 10% to 6%.

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