PEINE RIDGE ELEM.

Set in WENTZVILLE, Missouri, PEINE RIDGE ELEM. is a high-enrollment primary school, part of WENTZVILLE R-IV. It enrolls 548 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 74% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 22 schools in WENTZVILLE R-IV (18,469 students total), PEINE RIDGE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PEINE RIDGE ELEM. logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 13% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, PEINE RIDGE ELEM. has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting PEINE RIDGE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PEINE RIDGE ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.9%; this one delivers 35.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Charles County) logs that median household earnings sit near $104,692, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, St. Charles County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), of which PEINE RIDGE ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is NORTH POINT HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 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), PEINE RIDGE ELEM. ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 677 students in 2018 compared to 548 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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