SHENANDOAH ELEM.

As a modestly sized elementary campus in ST LOUIS, Missouri, SHENANDOAH ELEM. works with 145 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under ST. LOUIS CITY. Enrollment runs roughly 54% leaner than the state mean of about 315.

Across the 62 schools in ST. LOUIS CITY (17,933 students total), SHENANDOAH ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, SHENANDOAH ELEM. logs that nearly all students (89%) are Black. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, SHENANDOAH ELEM. lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at SHENANDOAH ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, SHENANDOAH ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Louis city indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SHENANDOAH ELEM. is one of 113 public schools in St. Louis city (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students).

Nearest neighbor: MO School for the Blind - HS, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SHENANDOAH ELEM. comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHENANDOAH ELEM. has fell 25%, going from 194 students in 2018 to 145 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 2% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.