MASON RIDGE ELEM.

MASON RIDGE ELEM. is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in TOWN & COUNTRY, Missouri, one of the schools within PARKWAY C-2. The school teaches 405 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 29% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

PARKWAY C-2 runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 16,759 students. MASON RIDGE ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MASON RIDGE ELEM. reports that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 10% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 8% of students at MASON RIDGE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MASON RIDGE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household income runs about $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), MASON RIDGE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HIRAM NEUWOEHNER, roughly 2.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MASON RIDGE ELEM. ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 471 students in 2018 compared to 405 in 2025. The White share of enrollment grew from 69% to 74% over that span.

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