GLENRIDGE ELEM.

GLENRIDGE ELEM. is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in CLAYTON, Missouri, overseen by CLAYTON, with 321 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

CLAYTON runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,367 students. GLENRIDGE ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, GLENRIDGE ELEM. records that White students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 17% Asian, 11% multiracial, 10% Black, 7% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GLENRIDGE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.9%.

In the surrounding community, St. Louis County reports that median household income runs about $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which GLENRIDGE ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is MERAMEC ELEM., roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GLENRIDGE ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. GLENRIDGE ELEM.'s enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 401 (now 321). Asian enrollment moved from 25% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the GLENRIDGE ELEM. community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.