COLD WATER ELEM.

Set in FLORISSANT, Missouri, COLD WATER ELEM. is a mid-tier elementary campus, one of the schools within HAZELWOOD. It works with 449 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 43% larger than typical.

HAZELWOOD runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 16,321 students. COLD WATER ELEM. is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, COLD WATER ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at COLD WATER ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COLD WATER ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of -10.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (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 roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), COLD WATER ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BROWN ELEM., around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around COLD WATER ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COLD WATER ELEM. at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. COLD WATER ELEM.'s enrollment has grew 5% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 449). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 17% to 6%. Class-load math has rose: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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