PROGRESS SOUTH ELEM.

As a well-populated K-5 school in ST PETERS, Missouri, PROGRESS SOUTH ELEM. serves 642 students from grades K through 5, part of FORT ZUMWALT SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so PROGRESS SOUTH ELEM. sits 104% above that benchmark.

FORT ZUMWALT SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 16,698 students. PROGRESS SOUTH ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, PROGRESS SOUTH ELEM. reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest reads as 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

Looking at school resources, PROGRESS SOUTH ELEM. logs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, PROGRESS SOUTH 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 46.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Charles County) logs that median household income runs about $104,692, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across St. Charles County's 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), PROGRESS SOUTH ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Boonslick, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PROGRESS SOUTH ELEM. comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 17%: 769 students in 2018 compared to 642 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 79% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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