HAWTHORN ELEM.

HAWTHORN ELEM. operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in ST PETERS, Missouri, part of FORT ZUMWALT SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 458 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 45% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Within FORT ZUMWALT SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 25 schools and 16,698 students, HAWTHORN ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HAWTHORN ELEM. logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, St. Charles County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, HAWTHORN ELEM. shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, HAWTHORN 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 50.0%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Zooming out to the 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. HAWTHORN ELEM. is one of 93 public schools in St. Charles County (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students).

The closest other public school is FT. ZUMWALT EAST HIGH, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAWTHORN ELEM. ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 53.0%.

HAWTHORN ELEM. operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 588 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 73% to 63%.

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