HALLS FERRY ELEMENTARY

HALLS FERRY ELEMENTARY is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in FLORISSANT, Missouri, one of the schools within FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II, with 394 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% bigger than the state mean of about 315.

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

Looking at the student body, HALLS FERRY ELEMENTARY logs that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% White, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting HALLS FERRY ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HALLS FERRY ELEMENTARY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.2%; actual is 24.1%, a gap of -26.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) logs that median household earnings sit near $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), HALLS FERRY ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

PARKER ROAD ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HALLS FERRY ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. HALLS FERRY ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged up 16% since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 394). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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