ROSS ELEM.

ROSS ELEM., a mid-tier K-5 school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, run under PARKWAY C-2, enrolls 413 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% larger than the state mean of about 315.

ROSS ELEM. is one of 29 schools operated by PARKWAY C-2, a district that educates 16,759 students overall.

Looking at the student body, ROSS ELEM. records that the largest single group is Black at 34%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 29% White, 22% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% 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, On paper, ROSS ELEM. has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, ROSS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), ROSS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

NORTH HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROSS ELEM. at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. ROSS ELEM.'s enrollment has grew 12% since 2018, when it stood at 370 (now 413). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 43% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.