GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE

GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in ST. LOUIS, Missouri, overseen by GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD/ST LOUIS. Current enrollment sits at 402 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 4 schools in GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD/ST LOUIS (1,666 students total), GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE shows that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 30% White, 10% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Louis city runs at roughly 92%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.9%.

Around the school, census data for St. Louis city shows the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE is one of 113 public schools in St. Louis city (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students).

Nearest neighbor: Woerner Elem, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GATEWAY SCIENCE ACAD-SOUTH ELE has decreased 5%, going from 423 students in 2018 to 402 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 59% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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