ROBERT DRUMMOND ELEM.

ROBERT DRUMMOND ELEM. operates as a high-enrollment primary school in ST ANN, Missouri, run under PATTONVILLE R-III. Current enrollment sits at 667 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 112% above typical.

Across the 10 schools in PATTONVILLE R-III (6,201 students total), ROBERT DRUMMOND ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ROBERT DRUMMOND ELEM. lists that 42% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 24% White, 19% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 24% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 64% of students are eligible 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), ROBERT DRUMMOND ELEM. falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.1%; this one comes in at 27.2%, -22.9 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), ROBERT DRUMMOND ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HOLMAN MIDDLE, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBERT DRUMMOND ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 721 students in 2018 compared to 667 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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