MEADOWS ELEM.

Set in ST LOUIS, Missouri, MEADOWS ELEM. is a mid-tier elementary-level community, operated by RIVERVIEW GARDENS. It caters to 321 students across grades K through 5.

Within RIVERVIEW GARDENS, which oversees 13 schools and 5,116 students, MEADOWS ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Demographically, MEADOWS ELEM. logs that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 2% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MEADOWS ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.0%; this one delivers 42.8%.

Across the wider county, census data for St. Louis County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 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), MEADOWS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Westview Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MEADOWS ELEM.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MEADOWS ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.3%.

MEADOWS ELEM. operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 329 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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