MCNAIR ELEM.

Located at 585 COACHWAY LN, in HAZELWOOD, Missouri, MCNAIR ELEM. is a mid-sized primary school that educates 417 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of HAZELWOOD. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 315.

Across the 31 schools in HAZELWOOD (16,321 students total), MCNAIR ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MCNAIR ELEM. logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 19% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, MCNAIR ELEM. reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MCNAIR ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.0%.

In the area at large, census data for St. Louis County shows median household earnings sit near $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), MCNAIR ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RUSSELL ELEM., around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MCNAIR ELEM. at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 57.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 421 students in 2018 compared to 417 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 44% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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