MONROE ELEM.

MONROE ELEM., a reasonably sized K-5 school in ST CHARLES, Missouri, run under ST. CHARLES R-VI, instructs 366 students, covering grades K through 4.

ST. CHARLES R-VI runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,732 students. MONROE ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On demographics, MONROE ELEM. logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MONROE ELEM. has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of St. Charles County's rate of about 19%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MONROE ELEM. is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 75.0%, a residual of +24.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for St. Charles County shows the typical household earns roughly $104,692 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, St. Charles County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), of which MONROE ELEM. is one.

ST. CHARLES WEST HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MONROE ELEM.. On composite proficiency, MONROE ELEM. comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MONROE ELEM. has contracted 15%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 366 in 2025.

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