MONROE ELEM.

As a close-knit K-5 school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, MONROE ELEM. hosts 181 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by ST. LOUIS CITY. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so MONROE ELEM. sits 43% leaner than that benchmark.

MONROE ELEM. is one of 62 schools operated by ST. LOUIS CITY, a district that educates 17,933 students overall.

Demographically, MONROE ELEM. logs that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 3% White, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MONROE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 38.7%, a residual of -10.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), MONROE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

KAIROS ACADEMIES 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.. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MONROE ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. MONROE ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 34% since 2018, when it stood at 273 (now 181). The White share of enrollment fell from 8% to 3% over that span.

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