MERAMEC ELEM.

MERAMEC ELEM. is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in CLAYTON, Missouri, one of the schools within CLAYTON, with 368 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

MERAMEC ELEM. is one of 5 schools operated by CLAYTON, a district that enrolls 2,367 students overall.

On the student-mix side, MERAMEC ELEM. reports that White students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school records 13% Asian, 10% multiracial, 7% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 5% of students at MERAMEC ELEM. qualify 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 south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, MERAMEC ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.2%, the actual is 63.9%, a residual of +12.7 points.

In the surrounding community, St. Louis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. MERAMEC ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

Nearest neighbor: JUVENILE DETENTION CTR., around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MERAMEC ELEM. comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MERAMEC ELEM. has stayed largely flat, going from 371 students in 2018 to 368 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 18% to 7%.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.