GIBSON ELEM.

Set in ST LOUIS, Missouri, GIBSON ELEM. is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, overseen by RIVERVIEW GARDENS. It instructs 387 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 315.

Within RIVERVIEW GARDENS, which oversees 13 schools and 5,116 students, GIBSON ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Demographically, GIBSON ELEM. lists that nearly all students (98%) are Black. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, GIBSON ELEM. records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting GIBSON ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GIBSON ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), GIBSON ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GIBSON ELEM.. On composite proficiency, GIBSON ELEM. comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 474 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the GIBSON ELEM. community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.