GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY

Located at 200 DAY DR, in FERGUSON, Missouri, GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that serves 292 students (grades 3 through 5), one of the schools within FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II.

Within FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II, which oversees 23 schools and 8,809 students, GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.4%; GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY posts 15.6%, -33.8 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

The closest other public school is LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. GRIFFITH ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 292). Black enrollment moved from 95% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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