JOHN WELDON ELEM.

JOHN WELDON ELEM. operates as a roomy K-5 school in DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Missouri, overseen by FRANCIS HOWELL R-III. Current enrollment sits at 640 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 103% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

FRANCIS HOWELL R-III runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 17,047 students. JOHN WELDON ELEM. is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JOHN WELDON ELEM. reports that White students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder looks like 12% Asian, 5% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, JOHN WELDON ELEM. has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 9% of students at JOHN WELDON ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Charles County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, JOHN WELDON ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Across the wider county, St. Charles County reports that median household income runs about $104,692, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across St. Charles County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), JOHN WELDON ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

FT. ZUWMALT WEST MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOHN WELDON ELEM. at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. JOHN WELDON ELEM.'s enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 732 (now 640). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 79% to 73%.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.