MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST

MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST is one of the compact primary schools in St. Louis, Missouri, part of MOMENTUM ACADEMY, with 161 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST sits 49% leaner than that benchmark.

MOMENTUM ACADEMY comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 599 students; MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST is among them.

Demographically, MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%); the rest reads as 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 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, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 49.4%; actual is 73.3%, +23.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate median household income runs about $56,160, 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), MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MO School for the Blind - ELEM, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 53.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. As a public charter, MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. MOMENTUM ACAD TOWER GROVE EAST's enrollment has grew 5% since 2018, when it stood at 154 (now 161). The Black share of enrollment grew from 74% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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