LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM.

LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM. is a sprawling K-5 school in ST JAMES, Missouri, overseen by ST. JAMES R-I. The school teaches 681 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 116% bigger than the state mean of about 315.

ST. JAMES R-I runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,559 students. LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On demographics, LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM. shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). The remainder reads as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 52% of students at LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -15.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Phelps County put the typical household earns roughly $58,396 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Phelps County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,217 students), of which LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: ST. JAMES HIGH, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM. at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LUCY WORTHAM JAMES ELEM. has declined 21%, going from 857 students in 2018 to 681 in 2025.

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