NMS @ Lucas Crossing

NMS @ Lucas Crossing is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle schools in ST LOUIS, Missouri, run under NORMANDY SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE, with 620 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 461.

Within NORMANDY SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE, which oversees 7 schools and 2,440 students, NMS @ Lucas Crossing is one campus in the system.

On demographics, NMS @ Lucas Crossing shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at NMS @ Lucas Crossing qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, NMS @ Lucas Crossing performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -9.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for St. Louis County shows median household earnings sit near $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. NMS @ Lucas Crossing is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

Nearest neighbor: NORMANDY EARLY LEARNING CENTER, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NMS @ Lucas Crossing at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 46.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.