BELAIR ELEM.

BELAIR ELEM. is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, overseen by JEFFERSON CITY, educateing 363 students in grades K through 5.

JEFFERSON CITY comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,491 students; BELAIR ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, BELAIR ELEM. reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 12% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, BELAIR ELEM. has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BELAIR ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cole County put the typical household earns roughly $74,876 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cole County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,312 students), of which BELAIR ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: WEST ELEM., around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BELAIR ELEM.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BELAIR ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELAIR ELEM. has contracted 10%, going from 402 students in 2018 to 363 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 10% to 16%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.