BARRINGTON ELEM.

BARRINGTON ELEM. is a K-5 school of heavily attended scale in FLORISSANT, Missouri, run under HAZELWOOD, educateing 515 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 63% bigger than the state mean of about 315.

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

Looking at the student body, BARRINGTON ELEM. logs that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 7% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, BARRINGTON ELEM. shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting BARRINGTON ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BARRINGTON 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 35.2%.

In the area at large, St. Louis County reports that median household income runs about $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. BARRINGTON ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

Nearest neighbor: NORTH MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BARRINGTON ELEM.. On composite proficiency, BARRINGTON ELEM. comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 26%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 515 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 83% to 88% over that span.

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