FROEBEL ELEM.

FROEBEL ELEM. is an elementary campus of compact scale in ST LOUIS, Missouri, overseen by ST. LOUIS CITY, works with 178 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so FROEBEL ELEM. sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 62 schools in ST. LOUIS CITY (17,933 students total), FROEBEL ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FROEBEL ELEM. lists that nearly all students (96%) are Black. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, FROEBEL 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 66.0%, a residual of +16.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Louis city) reports that median household earnings sit near $56,160, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which FROEBEL ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FROEBEL ELEM. ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FROEBEL ELEM. has ticked down 24%, going from 235 students in 2018 to 178 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 89% to 96%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

On the community side, members of the FROEBEL ELEM. community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.