FLYNN PARK ELEM.

FLYNN PARK ELEM. operates as a medium-sized elementary school in UNIVERSITY CITY, Missouri, part of UNIVERSITY CITY. Current enrollment sits at 323 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within UNIVERSITY CITY, which oversees 7 schools and 2,853 students, FLYNN PARK ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, FLYNN PARK ELEM. logs that the largest single group is Black at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FLYNN PARK 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 50.6%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for St. Louis County shows median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which FLYNN PARK ELEM. is one.

JACKSON PARK ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FLYNN PARK ELEM. comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. FLYNN PARK ELEM.'s enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 322 (now 323).

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