GARRETT ELEM.
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 31 points, placing it in Missouri's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GARRETT ELEM.
As a mid-tier K-5 school in HAZELWOOD, Missouri, GARRETT ELEM. enrolls 309 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within HAZELWOOD.
HAZELWOOD runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 16,321 students. GARRETT ELEM. is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, GARRETT ELEM. logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%. Beyond that, the school records 17% White, 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. 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, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, GARRETT ELEM. is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 80.0%, a residual of +30.6 points.
Across the wider county, 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%. GARRETT ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).
Nearest neighbor: WEST EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GARRETT ELEM. comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GARRETT ELEM. has declined 18%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 309 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 4% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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