RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE

RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE is one of the reasonably sized 6-8 campuss in ARNOLD, Missouri, run under FOX C-6, with 567 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% larger than the state mean of about 461.

Within FOX C-6, which oversees 18 schools and 10,258 students, RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE logs that nearly all students (81%) are White; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the resource side, On paper, RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 54.7%.

Around the school, census data for Jefferson County shows the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE is one of 69 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students).

Nearest neighbor: MERAMEC HEIGHTS ELEM., around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIDGEWOOD MIDDLE has contracted 11%, going from 639 students in 2018 to 567 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 90% to 81%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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