MERAMEC ELEM.

MERAMEC ELEM. is a close-knit primary school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, overseen by ST. LOUIS CITY. The school instructs 171 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 315.

Across the 62 schools in ST. LOUIS CITY (17,933 students total), MERAMEC ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, MERAMEC ELEM. records that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 2% White. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, MERAMEC ELEM. reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MERAMEC ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 51.8%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), MERAMEC ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carnahan Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MERAMEC ELEM. comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. MERAMEC ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 230 (now 171). Over the same period, the Black share grew from 90% to 95%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the MERAMEC ELEM. community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.