LADUE MIDDLE

LADUE MIDDLE, a well-populated intermediate school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within LADUE, instructs 1,053 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 128% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

LADUE MIDDLE is one of 8 schools operated by LADUE, a district that teaches 4,624 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LADUE MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% Asian, 16% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, LADUE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 55.7%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which LADUE MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is CONWAY ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LADUE MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LADUE MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. LADUE MIDDLE's enrollment has rose 7% since 2018, when it stood at 984 (now 1,053).

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