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ROBERT H. SPERRENG MIDDLE
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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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