EMGE ELEM.

EMGE ELEM. is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in O'FALLON, Missouri, overseen by FORT ZUMWALT SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 348 students in grades K through 5.

FORT ZUMWALT SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 16,698 students; EMGE ELEM. is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, EMGE ELEM. logs that White students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder breaks down as 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, EMGE ELEM. has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EMGE 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 51.4%, a residual of +0.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Charles County) shows that median household earnings sit near $104,692, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. EMGE ELEM. is one of 93 public schools in St. Charles County (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students).

DARDENNE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EMGE ELEM. at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 52.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. EMGE ELEM.'s enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 372 (now 348). The White share of enrollment shrank from 83% to 73% over that span.

On the community side, members of the EMGE ELEM. community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.