BRIDGEWAY ELEM.

BRIDGEWAY ELEM. is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in BRIDGETON, Missouri, overseen by PATTONVILLE R-III, with 417 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

PATTONVILLE R-III runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,201 students. BRIDGEWAY ELEM. is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BRIDGEWAY ELEM. shows that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 28% Black, 18% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, BRIDGEWAY ELEM. logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRIDGEWAY ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of +9.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, St. Louis County reports that median household income runs about $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%. BRIDGEWAY ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

PARKWOOD ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRIDGEWAY ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRIDGEWAY ELEM. at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 48.1%.

BRIDGEWAY ELEM. operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. BRIDGEWAY ELEM.'s enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 417). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.