DRESSEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DRESSEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a sizable elementary school in ST. LOUIS, Missouri, overseen by LINDBERGH SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 598 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 90% bigger than typical.

Within LINDBERGH SCHOOLS, which oversees 10 schools and 7,602 students, DRESSEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, DRESSEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest consists of 6% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at DRESSEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, DRESSEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 49.3%.

In the broader community, census data for St. Louis County shows median household income runs about $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), DRESSEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SAPPINGTON ELEM., around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DRESSEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 59.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

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