BLADES ELEM.

BLADES ELEM. is a moderately sized primary school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, overseen by MEHLVILLE R-IX. The school instructs 442 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so BLADES ELEM. sits 40% bigger than that benchmark.

MEHLVILLE R-IX comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 10,095 students; BLADES ELEM. is among them.

On demographics, BLADES ELEM. shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 7% Black, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting BLADES ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 29% of students at BLADES ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, BLADES ELEM. is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 76.4%, a residual of +25.7 points.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), BLADES ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

OAKVILLE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BLADES ELEM. comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 70.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. BLADES ELEM.'s enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 497 (now 442).

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