LARIMORE ELEM.

LARIMORE ELEM., a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in ST LOUIS, Missouri, run under HAZELWOOD, serves 330 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

LARIMORE ELEM. is one of 31 schools operated by HAZELWOOD, a district that instructs 16,321 students overall.

Demographically, LARIMORE ELEM. shows that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, LARIMORE ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 47.1%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Louis County put 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%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), LARIMORE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

SOUTHEAST MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LARIMORE ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LARIMORE ELEM. at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 42.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. LARIMORE ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 434 (now 330). Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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