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HOLMAN MIDDLE
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MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 26 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HOLMAN MIDDLE
HOLMAN MIDDLE is an average-sized middle-grades school in ST ANN, Missouri, one of the schools within PATTONVILLE R-III. The school educates 639 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 39% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.
PATTONVILLE R-III runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,201 students. HOLMAN MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
On demographics, HOLMAN MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 30% White, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HOLMAN MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 56.3%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which HOLMAN MIDDLE is one.
PATTONVILLE Early CHol is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOLMAN MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.1%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOLMAN MIDDLE has rose 9%, going from 584 students in 2018 to 639 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 30% across the same window.
On this page, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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