HYDE ELEM.

HYDE ELEM., a mid-sized elementary-level community in ST JOSEPH, Missouri, overseen by ST. JOSEPH, educates 352 students, covering grades K through 5.

HYDE ELEM. is one of 22 schools operated by ST. JOSEPH, a district that hosts 10,430 students overall.

On demographics, HYDE ELEM. records that White students make up the majority at 68%; the rest breaks down as 16% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% 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 above Buchanan County's rate of about 69%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HYDE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 63.5%, a residual of +14.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Buchanan County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,158 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Buchanan County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,825 students), HYDE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BENTON HIGH, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HYDE ELEM.. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HYDE ELEM. ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HYDE ELEM. has shrank 19%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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