HUDSON ELEM.

HUDSON ELEM., a compact elementary school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within WEBSTER GROVES, teaches 199 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

WEBSTER GROVES comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,312 students; HUDSON ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, HUDSON ELEM. shows that White students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 15% multiracial, 5% Black, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, HUDSON ELEM. has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, HUDSON ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 57.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) shows that median household income runs about $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), HUDSON ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DR. HENRY GIVENS JR. ELEM., roughly 0.5 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), HUDSON ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. HUDSON ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 14% since 2018, when it stood at 231 (now 199). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 14% to 5%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for HUDSON ELEM. typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.