PARKWOOD ELEM.

Set in MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Missouri, PARKWOOD ELEM. is a medium-sized K-5 school, overseen by PATTONVILLE R-III. It enrolls 409 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 30% above typical.

PATTONVILLE R-III comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 6,201 students; PARKWOOD ELEM. is among them.

On demographics, PARKWOOD ELEM. shows that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 34% White, 15% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, On paper, PARKWOOD ELEM. has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, PARKWOOD ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 41.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) records that median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which PARKWOOD ELEM. is one.

BRIDGEWAY ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARKWOOD ELEM. ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARKWOOD ELEM. has contracted 11%, going from 457 students in 2018 to 409 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 49% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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