BAYLESS ELEMENTARY

BAYLESS ELEMENTARY, a roomy primary school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within BAYLESS, serves 858 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 172% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

BAYLESS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,805 students; BAYLESS ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BAYLESS ELEMENTARY logs that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest consists of 11% Black, 11% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. Compared to St. Louis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BAYLESS ELEMENTARY has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at BAYLESS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BAYLESS ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 60.0%.

In the broader community, St. Louis County reports that median household earnings sit near $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which BAYLESS ELEMENTARY is one.

BAYLESS JUNIOR HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BAYLESS ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, BAYLESS ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. BAYLESS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 860 (now 858).

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