LINDBERGH ELEM.

LINDBERGH ELEM., a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in ST JOSEPH, Missouri, operated by ST. JOSEPH, caters to 431 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% bigger than the state mean of about 315.

Across the 22 schools in ST. JOSEPH (10,430 students total), LINDBERGH ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, LINDBERGH ELEM. shows that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 17% multiracial, 15% Hispanic, 5% Pacific Islander, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at LINDBERGH ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Buchanan County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LINDBERGH 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 58.8%, a residual of +9.4 points.

Around the school, Buchanan County reports that median household income runs about $62,158, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Buchanan County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,825 students), LINDBERGH ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

LAFAYETTE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LINDBERGH ELEM. ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 450 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 58% across the same window.

On this page, members of the LINDBERGH ELEM. community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.