LEMASTERS ELEM.

Located at 1825 CROWN POINT, in ST LOUIS, Missouri, LEMASTERS ELEM. is a medium-sized elementary school that serves 301 students (grades K through 5), part of RIVERVIEW GARDENS.

Within RIVERVIEW GARDENS, which oversees 13 schools and 5,116 students, LEMASTERS ELEM. is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LEMASTERS ELEM. lists that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic. 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, On paper, LEMASTERS ELEM. has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LEMASTERS ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.1%.

In the area at large, census data for St. Louis County shows median household earnings sit near $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LEMASTERS ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

MOLINE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEMASTERS ELEM.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEMASTERS ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. LEMASTERS ELEM.'s enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 355 (now 301). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 1% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.