CROSSROADS ELEM.

Located at 7500 TOWN SQUARE, in DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Missouri, CROSSROADS ELEM. is an expansive K-5 school that serves 757 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within WENTZVILLE R-IV. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 140% larger than typical.

WENTZVILLE R-IV runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 18,469 students. CROSSROADS ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, CROSSROADS ELEM. lists that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Asian, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, CROSSROADS ELEM. has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CROSSROADS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Charles County put the typical household earns roughly $104,692 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CROSSROADS ELEM. is one of 93 public schools in St. Charles County (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students).

BARFIELD EARLY CHILDHOOD CNTR is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CROSSROADS ELEM. ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 59.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CROSSROADS ELEM. has ticked down 5%, going from 793 students in 2018 to 757 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 83% to 64%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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