HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE

HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE, a close-knit intermediate school in LEMAY, Missouri, run under HANCOCK PLACE, educates 266 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 461 students per school, that is 42% below typical.

HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by HANCOCK PLACE, a district that serves 1,282 students overall.

In terms of who attends, HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 23% Black, 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 68.3%, a residual of +18.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

The closest other public school is HANCOCK SR. HIGH, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. HANCOCK PLACE MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 266). White enrollment moved from 58% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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