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ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM.
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As a medium-sized K-5 school in ARNOLD, Missouri, ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM. instructs 386 students from grades K through 5, run under FOX C-6. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 315.
FOX C-6 runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 10,258 students. ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM. is one of those campuses.
Demographically, ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM. logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Jefferson County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM. has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.2%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM. is one of 69 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students).
Nearest neighbor: RAYMOND NANCY HODGE ELEM., around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROCKPORT HEIGHTS ELEM. at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.1%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 496 students in 2018 compared to 386 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 90% to 85% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.
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