MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS

Located at 4221 SHAW BLVD, in ST LOUIS, Missouri, MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS is a mid-tier elementary school that works with 413 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under ST. LOUIS CITY. Enrollment runs roughly 31% above the state mean of about 315.

ST. LOUIS CITY comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 17,933 students; MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 7% White. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 41.9%.

In the broader community, St. Louis city reports that median household income runs about $56,160, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI ECEC, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MULLANPHY BOTANICAL GARDENS has declined 13%, going from 474 students in 2018 to 413 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked up from 76% to 85% over that span.

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