CARMAN TRAILS ELEM.

Located at 555 WEIDMAN RD, in MANCHESTER, Missouri, CARMAN TRAILS ELEM. is a reasonably sized elementary campus that enrolls 355 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within PARKWAY C-2.

Across the 29 schools in PARKWAY C-2 (16,759 students total), CARMAN TRAILS ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CARMAN TRAILS ELEM. logs that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 12% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with St. Louis County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, CARMAN TRAILS ELEM. has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CARMAN TRAILS ELEM. sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.7%; actual is 30.8%, a gap of -19.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for St. Louis County shows 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. CARMAN TRAILS ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

Nearest neighbor: HANNA WOODS ELEM., around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CARMAN TRAILS ELEM.. On composite proficiency, CARMAN TRAILS ELEM. comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. CARMAN TRAILS ELEM.'s enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 438 (now 355). The White share of enrollment grew from 53% to 58% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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