MRH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER

Located at 2810 Burgess Avenue, in MAPLEWOOD, Missouri, MRH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is an average-sized elementary campus that works with 451 students (grades pre-K through 2), one of the schools within MAPLEWOOD-RICHMOND HEIGHTS. That puts it 43% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 4 schools in MAPLEWOOD-RICHMOND HEIGHTS (1,523 students total), MRH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MRH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 12% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which MRH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one.

MAPLEWOOD-RICHMOND HGTS. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MRH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. MRH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 517 (now 451). Over the same period, the White share edged up from 67% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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