Enrollment
337
Elementary
DISTRICT 243 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LOUIS CITY·NCES 292928002641
DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES
815 ANN AVE, ST LOUIS, MO 63104 · (314) 645-4845 · St. Louis city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL337 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
337 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 54%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersEnglish Language Arts
24.0%
MO avg 49.5% . -45.5pp since 2023
Math
90.7%
MO avg 48.7% . +12.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 46 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Source: MO DVT (Growth). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.4%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
337
-95 (-22%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.0:1
% White
5%
was 7%
% Hispanic
7%
was 8%
% Black
87%
was 82%
% Asian
1%
was 3%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES
Located at 815 ANN AVE, in ST LOUIS, Missouri, DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES is a moderately sized elementary school that teaches 337 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of ST. LOUIS CITY.
Within ST. LOUIS CITY, which oversees 62 schools and 17,933 students, DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES logs that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic, 5% White. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 59.7%.
Around the school, census data for St. Louis city shows median household earnings sit near $56,160, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES is one campus in the mix.
WILKINSON EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 53.8%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 432 (now 337). Black enrollment moved from 82% to 87% across the same window.
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St. Louis city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
288,512
Census ACS
Median income
$56,160
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
29,941 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in ST. LOUIS CITY
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- ROOSEVELT HIGHHigh · 734 students
- VASHON HIGHHigh · 621 students
- MCKINLEY CLASS. LEADERSHIP AC.High · 610 students
- STIX EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR.Elementary · 472 students
- MILLER CAREER ACADEMYHigh · 430 students
Other schools in ST LOUIS
- RITENOUR SR. HIGHHigh · 2,041 students
- OAKVILLE SR. HIGHHigh · 1,847 students
- LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGHHigh · 1,395 students
- MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,388 students
- HAZELWOOD EAST HIGHHigh · 1,310 students
- WEBSTER GROVES HIGHHigh · 1,253 students
Nearby schools
- WILKINSON EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR.0.6 mi · 304
- MRH ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 436
- WYDOWN MIDDLE0.9 mi · 604
- RALPH M. CAPTAIN ELEM.1.0 mi · 286
- MASON ELEM.1.6 mi · 393
- GLENRIDGE ELEM.1.6 mi · 321
Frequently asked questions
About DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIESHow large is DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES?
DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES enrolls approximately 337 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES serve?
DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES.
How diverse is DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES?
DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES reports a student body of 5% White, 7% Hispanic, 87% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES?
DEWEY SCH.-INTERNAT'L. STUDIES is overseen by ST. LOUIS CITY in St. Louis city.
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