PARKADE ELEM.

PARKADE ELEM., a mid-sized elementary school in COLUMBIA, Missouri, one of the schools within COLUMBIA 93, enrolls 359 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within COLUMBIA 93, which oversees 34 schools and 18,640 students, PARKADE ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Demographically, PARKADE ELEM. shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 33% Black, 11% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at PARKADE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Boone County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARKADE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of +5.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Boone County) shows that median household income runs about $72,758, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Boone County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), PARKADE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DELMAR A COBBLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PARKADE ELEM. comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 57% to 43%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for PARKADE ELEM. typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.