COLEMAN ELEM.

Located at 4536 COLEMAN RD, in VILLA RIDGE, Missouri, COLEMAN ELEM. is an intimate elementary campus that caters to 265 students (grades pre-K through 4), run under MERAMEC VALLEY R-III.

MERAMEC VALLEY R-III runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,131 students. COLEMAN ELEM. is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, COLEMAN ELEM. logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 8% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Franklin County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, COLEMAN ELEM. has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Franklin County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COLEMAN 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 48.8%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,165 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Franklin County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,025 students), COLEMAN ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Labadie Elementary, roughly 3.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COLEMAN ELEM. at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. COLEMAN ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 265). Class-load math has fell: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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