LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY

Located at 401 POWELL AVE, in FERGUSON, Missouri, LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY is a reasonably sized primary school that enrolls 310 students (grades 3 through 5), overseen by FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II.

Across the 23 schools in FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II (8,809 students total), LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY shows that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 5% White, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) records that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JOHNSON WABASH 6TH GRADE CTR, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 42.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. LEE HAMILTON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 310). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 10% to 5%.

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