MERAMEC HEIGHTS ELEM.

Located at 1340 W OUTER 21 RD, in ARNOLD, Missouri, MERAMEC HEIGHTS ELEM. is an average-sized elementary-level community that caters to 376 students (grades K through 5), run under FOX C-6.

Within FOX C-6, which oversees 18 schools and 10,258 students, MERAMEC HEIGHTS ELEM. is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MERAMEC HEIGHTS ELEM. records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MERAMEC HEIGHTS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +18.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MERAMEC HEIGHTS ELEM. is one of 69 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students).

The closest other public school is RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MERAMEC HEIGHTS ELEM. comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 535 students in 2018 compared to 376 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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