Orchard Farm Elementary

Orchard Farm Elementary is a primary school of sizable scale in St. Charles, Missouri, overseen by ORCHARD FARM R-V, caters to 557 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so Orchard Farm Elementary sits 77% bigger than that benchmark.

ORCHARD FARM R-V comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,241 students; Orchard Farm Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Orchard Farm Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 21% of students at Orchard Farm Elementary qualify 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), Orchard Farm Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -1.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (St. Charles County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $104,692 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across St. Charles County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), Orchard Farm Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Orchard Farm Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 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), Orchard Farm Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Orchard Farm Elementary has grew 5%, going from 528 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 82% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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