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ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 31 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE
ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of substantial scale in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within LINDBERGH SCHOOLS, instructing 941 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 104% larger than the state mean of about 461.
ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE is one of 10 schools operated by LINDBERGH SCHOOLS, a district that enrolls 7,602 students overall.
In terms of who attends, ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Beyond that, the school records 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.
With demographic context factored in, ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of +4.4 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: CONCORD ELEM. SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE has ticked up 5%, going from 894 students in 2018 to 941 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 86% to 80%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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