MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE

MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE is a moderately sized elementary-level community in MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Missouri, operated by PARKWAY C-2. The school works with 432 students in grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE sits 37% larger than that benchmark.

MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE is one of 29 schools operated by PARKWAY C-2, a district that works with 16,759 students overall.

Looking at the student body, MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE lists that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Asian, 21% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 66.5%.

In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MCKELVEY PRIMARY, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. MCKELVEY INTERMEDIATE's enrollment has fell 31% since 2018, when it stood at 623 (now 432). The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 46% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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