HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM.

HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM. is a reasonably sized elementary campus in HOUSE SPRINGS, Missouri, run under NORTHWEST R-I. The school instructs 462 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 47% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 10 schools in NORTHWEST R-I (5,815 students total), HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM. reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 41.8%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household income runs about $82,851, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Jefferson County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students), HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

NORTHWEST VALLEY SCH. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM.. On composite proficiency, HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM. comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

HOUSE SPRINGS ELEM. operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 528 students in 2018 compared to 462 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 95% to 91% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.