PERSHING ELEM.

Located at 6761 BARTMER AVE, in UNIVERSITY CITY, Missouri, PERSHING ELEM. is a medium-sized primary school that instructs 286 students (grades K through 5), overseen by UNIVERSITY CITY.

UNIVERSITY CITY comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,853 students; PERSHING ELEM. is among them.

In terms of who attends, PERSHING ELEM. logs that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 7% Hispanic, 6% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, PERSHING ELEM. records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting PERSHING ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at PERSHING ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PERSHING ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 61.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate 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%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), PERSHING ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JULIA GOLDSTEIN EARLY CHILD., roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PERSHING ELEM. at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 93% to 84% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.