REED ELEMENTARY

Located at 9060 LADUE, in ST LOUIS, Missouri, REED ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized primary school that enrolls 410 students (grades K through 4), part of LADUE. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 315.

LADUE comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,624 students; REED ELEMENTARY is among them.

Looking at the student body, REED ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 8% Asian, 8% multiracial, 8% Black, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 8% of students at REED ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), REED ELEMENTARY sits in the top 10% of Missouri schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.1%; actual is 96.3%, +45.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) reports that median household earnings sit near $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which REED ELEMENTARY is one.

CLAYTON HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, REED ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. REED ELEMENTARY's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 410).

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