KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM.

KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM. is one of the minimally staffed junior highs in JENNINGS, Missouri, run under JENNINGS, with 138 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM. sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

JENNINGS comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,269 students; KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM. is among them.

Demographically, KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM. lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (98%). The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM. has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KENNETH C. HANRAHAN 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 61.9%, a residual of +12.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for St. Louis County put median household earnings sit near $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is WOODLAND ELEM., roughly 0.1 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), KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM. ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. KENNETH C. HANRAHAN ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 202 (now 138). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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