JOURNEY ELEMENTARY

JOURNEY ELEMENTARY operates as a heavily attended primary school in WENTZVILLE, Missouri, operated by WENTZVILLE R-IV. Current enrollment sits at 595 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 89% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 22 schools in WENTZVILLE R-IV (18,469 students total), JOURNEY ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, JOURNEY ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 13% of students at JOURNEY ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOURNEY ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +12.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Charles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $104,692 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Charles County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), JOURNEY ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WABASH ELEMENTARY, around 1.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JOURNEY ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

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