CRAIG ELEM.

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, CRAIG ELEM. works with 423 students from grades K through 5, run under PARKWAY C-2. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

PARKWAY C-2 comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 16,759 students; CRAIG ELEM. is among them.

In terms of who attends, CRAIG ELEM. logs that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 32% Black, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CRAIG ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the area at large, St. Louis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. CRAIG ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

ROSS ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CRAIG ELEM.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CRAIG ELEM. ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CRAIG ELEM. has fell 12%, going from 483 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 16% to 9% over that span.

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