HARVEST RIDGE ELEM.

HARVEST RIDGE ELEM. is a primary school of large scale in ST CHARLES, Missouri, part of FRANCIS HOWELL R-III, enrolling 572 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 82% above the state mean of about 315.

FRANCIS HOWELL R-III comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 17,047 students; HARVEST RIDGE ELEM. is among them.

On demographics, HARVEST RIDGE ELEM. logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Black, 12% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 23% of students at HARVEST RIDGE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARVEST RIDGE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -18.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Charles County indicate median household earnings sit near $104,692, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Charles County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), of which HARVEST RIDGE ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: ST.CHARLES EARLY CHILDHOOD CTR, around 1.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARVEST RIDGE ELEM. ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 661 students in 2018 compared to 572 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 61% to 53% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.