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What's the biggest difference between GATEWAY ELEM. and what you expected?
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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 243 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LOUIS CITY·NCES 292928001587
GATEWAY ELEM.
4 GATEWAY DR, ST LOUIS, MO 63106 · (314) 241-8255 · St. Louis city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
426 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 54%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersEnglish Language Arts
38.3%
MO avg 49.5% . +15.6pp since 2023
Math
19.3%
MO avg 48.7% . -14.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Source: MO DVT (Growth). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
26.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.4%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
426
-125 (-23%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 13.9:1
% White
1%
was 2%
% Hispanic
1%
was 2%
% Black
95%
was 95%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About GATEWAY ELEM.
GATEWAY ELEM. is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within ST. LOUIS CITY, with 426 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so GATEWAY ELEM. sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.
Within ST. LOUIS CITY, which oversees 62 schools and 17,933 students, GATEWAY ELEM. is one campus in the system.
Demographically, GATEWAY ELEM. logs that nearly all students (95%) are Black. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GATEWAY ELEM. has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting GATEWAY ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GATEWAY ELEM. is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.4%; GATEWAY ELEM. posts 26.8%, -22.6 points below that line.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate median household earnings sit near $56,160, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which GATEWAY ELEM. is one.
The closest other public school is ELIAS MICHAEL ELEM., roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GATEWAY ELEM.. On composite proficiency, GATEWAY ELEM. comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GATEWAY ELEM. has declined 23%, going from 551 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.
On allk12, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
St. Louis city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
288,512
Census ACS
Median income
$56,160
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
29,941 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. LOUIS CITY
- GATEWAY HIGHHigh · 860 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGHHigh · 734 students
- VASHON HIGHHigh · 621 students
- MCKINLEY CLASS. LEADERSHIP AC.High · 610 students
- STIX EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR.Elementary · 472 students
- MILLER CAREER ACADEMYHigh · 430 students
Other schools in ST LOUIS
- RITENOUR SR. HIGHHigh · 2,041 students
- OAKVILLE SR. HIGHHigh · 1,847 students
- LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGHHigh · 1,395 students
- MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,388 students
- HAZELWOOD EAST HIGHHigh · 1,310 students
- WEBSTER GROVES HIGHHigh · 1,253 students
Nearby schools
- ELIAS MICHAEL ELEM.0.0 mi · 43
- GATEWAY MIDDLE0.1 mi · 382
- CARR LANE VPA MIDDLE0.2 mi · 396
- KIPP INSPIRE ACADEMY0.2 mi · 409
- KIPP ST. LOUIS HIGH0.4 mi · 354
- JEFFERSON ELEM.0.4 mi · 125
Frequently asked questions
About GATEWAY ELEM.How many students attend GATEWAY ELEM.?
GATEWAY ELEM. enrolls approximately 426 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does GATEWAY ELEM. serve?
GATEWAY ELEM. serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GATEWAY ELEM.?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GATEWAY ELEM. is approximately 10.8:1 (40 FTE teachers).
How diverse is GATEWAY ELEM.?
GATEWAY ELEM. reports a student body of 1% White, 1% Hispanic, 95% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is GATEWAY ELEM. in?
GATEWAY ELEM. is part of ST. LOUIS CITY.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.