HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM.

HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM. operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, overseen by PARKWAY C-2. Current enrollment sits at 369 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 29 schools in PARKWAY C-2 (16,759 students total), HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM. shows that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 11% Asian, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 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), HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SHENANDOAH VALLEY ELEM., roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM. comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 356 students in 2018 compared to 369 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 15% to 10% across the same window.

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