SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR.

SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR. is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in ST LOUIS, Missouri, one of the schools within ST. LOUIS CITY, instructing 272 students in grades pre-K through 5.

ST. LOUIS CITY runs 62 schools in total, collectively educating 17,933 students. SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR. is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR. reports that 88% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR. logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 48.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate median household earnings sit near $56,160, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR. is one of 113 public schools in St. Louis city (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students).

CENTRAL VISUAL/PERF. ARTS HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.3%.

SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR. operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. SHAW VISUAL/PERF. ARTS CTR.'s enrollment has decreased 35% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 272). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 10% to 5%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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