LACLEDE ELEM.

LACLEDE ELEM. is a primary school of modestly sized scale in ST LOUIS, Missouri, part of ST. LOUIS CITY, caters to 264 students in grades pre-K through 8.

ST. LOUIS CITY comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 17,933 students; LACLEDE ELEM. is among them.

On demographics, LACLEDE ELEM. shows that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LACLEDE 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 39.8%, a residual of -9.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for St. Louis city put the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which LACLEDE ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: BARACK OBAMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LACLEDE ELEM. comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. LACLEDE ELEM.'s enrollment has increased 29% since 2018, when it stood at 204 (now 264). Class-load math has rose: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.