MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK

Set in St. Louis, Missouri, MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK is a micro-enrollment primary school, run under MOMENTUM ACADEMY. It teaches 91 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 71% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

MOMENTUM ACADEMY comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 599 students; MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK is among them.

On the student-mix side, MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). The remainder reads as 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 56.9%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for St. Louis city shows the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kairos High, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 56.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. MOMENTUM ACAD GRAVOIS PARK is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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