PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL

PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL is a big elementary-level community in ST LOUIS, Missouri, run under PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL. The school instructs 974 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 209% bigger than typical.

PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL reports that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 33% Black, 18% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL has 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Louis city runs at roughly 92%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of +16.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate median household earnings sit near $56,160, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GATEWAY SCIENCE ACADEMY HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL has grew 8%, going from 903 students in 2018 to 974 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 24% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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