KOCH ELEM.

KOCH ELEM. operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within RIVERVIEW GARDENS. Current enrollment sits at 299 students spanning grades K through 5.

RIVERVIEW GARDENS runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,116 students. KOCH ELEM. is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, KOCH ELEM. lists that 98% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, KOCH ELEM. has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at KOCH ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KOCH ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.0%; this one delivers 67.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), KOCH ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Westview Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KOCH ELEM.. On composite proficiency, KOCH ELEM. comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 353 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025.

On this page, members of the KOCH ELEM. community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.