BEASLEY ELEM.

BEASLEY ELEM., a close-knit K-5 school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within MEHLVILLE R-IX, enrolls 250 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so BEASLEY ELEM. sits 21% below that benchmark.

BEASLEY ELEM. is one of 19 schools operated by MEHLVILLE R-IX, a district that serves 10,095 students overall.

In terms of who attends, BEASLEY ELEM. logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 18% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. Compared to St. Louis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting BEASLEY ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BEASLEY ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for St. Louis County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 BEASLEY ELEM. is one.

JOHN CARY EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BEASLEY ELEM. comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 29%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 70% to 66%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.