MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE

As a reasonably sized middle school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE serves 549 students from grades 6 through 8, part of MEHLVILLE R-IX.

Within MEHLVILLE R-IX, which oversees 19 schools and 10,095 students, MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE reports that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 11% Black, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of +15.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) logs that median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

Nearest neighbor: MEHLVILLE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. MARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 604 (now 549). The White share of enrollment shrank from 75% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.