EARL NANCE SR. ELEM.

EARL NANCE SR. ELEM. operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in ST LOUIS, Missouri, run under ST. LOUIS CITY. Current enrollment sits at 321 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Within ST. LOUIS CITY, which oversees 62 schools and 17,933 students, EARL NANCE SR. ELEM. is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, EARL NANCE SR. ELEM. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (98%). The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 100% 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, EARL NANCE SR. ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of -12.0 points.

Around the school, census data for St. Louis city shows median household income runs about $56,160, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), EARL NANCE SR. ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NORTHVIEW ELEM., around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EARL NANCE SR. ELEM. comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EARL NANCE SR. ELEM. has edged down 5%, going from 337 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025.

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