MOMENTUM FOX PARK

MOMENTUM FOX PARK is one of the minimally staffed elementary campuss in ST. LOUIS, Missouri, operated by MOMENTUM ACADEMY, with 107 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 66% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

MOMENTUM ACADEMY runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 599 students. MOMENTUM FOX PARK is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MOMENTUM FOX PARK reports that nearly all students (94%) are Black. The remainder consists of 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.4:1. 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 number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MOMENTUM FOX 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 53.0%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, St. Louis city reports that median household income runs about $56,160, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), MOMENTUM FOX PARK is one campus in the mix.

SIGEL ELEM. COMM. ED. CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MOMENTUM FOX PARK. On composite proficiency, MOMENTUM FOX PARK comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site. MOMENTUM FOX PARK operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. MOMENTUM FOX PARK's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 153 (now 107). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the MOMENTUM FOX PARK community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.