NORTH GLENDALE ELEM.

NORTH GLENDALE ELEM., a substantial elementary school in KIRKWOOD, Missouri, part of KIRKWOOD R-VII, works with 571 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 81% above the state mean of about 315.

Within KIRKWOOD R-VII, which oversees 9 schools and 5,982 students, NORTH GLENDALE ELEM. is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTH GLENDALE ELEM. lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, NORTH GLENDALE ELEM. reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting NORTH GLENDALE ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 6% of students at NORTH GLENDALE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NORTH GLENDALE ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 59.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for St. Louis County shows median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. NORTH GLENDALE ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).

Nearest neighbor: F. P. TILLMAN ELEM., around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH GLENDALE ELEM. ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 573 students in 2018 compared to 571 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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