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LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 25 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE
Located at 3300 HWY 109, in WILDWOOD, Missouri, LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE is a heavily attended 6-8 campus that educates 927 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by ROCKWOOD R-VI. Enrollment runs roughly 101% above the state mean of about 461.
Within ROCKWOOD R-VI, which oversees 30 schools and 19,597 students, LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest looks like 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 10% of students at LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LASALLE SPRINGS 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 44.4%, a residual of -6.7 points.
In the area at large, St. Louis County reports that median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE is one.
FAIRWAY ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.4%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LASALLE SPRINGS MIDDLE has expanded 5%, going from 881 students in 2018 to 927 in 2025.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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