HENDERSON ELEM.

HENDERSON ELEM. is one of the large K-5 schools in ST CHARLES, Missouri, one of the schools within FRANCIS HOWELL R-III, with 653 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 107% bigger than the state mean of about 315.

HENDERSON ELEM. is one of 21 schools operated by FRANCIS HOWELL R-III, a district that teaches 17,047 students overall.

Demographically, HENDERSON ELEM. logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above St. Charles County's rate of about 19%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HENDERSON ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of -14.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Charles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,692 per year, 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 HENDERSON ELEM. is one.

EARLY CHILD. FAMILY EDUC CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HENDERSON ELEM. at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.0%.

HENDERSON ELEM. operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 687 students in 2018 compared to 653 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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