LAWSON ELEM.

LAWSON ELEM. is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in FLORISSANT, Missouri, operated by HAZELWOOD, with 316 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

HAZELWOOD runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 16,321 students. LAWSON ELEM. is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, LAWSON ELEM. reports that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment; the rest looks like 19% White, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAWSON 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 67.4%, a residual of +17.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) logs 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), LAWSON ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MCCURDY ELEM., around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAWSON ELEM. at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

LAWSON ELEM. operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 389 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 19% across the same window.

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