SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Set in ST LOUIS, Missouri, SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES is a low-enrollment secondary school, part of ST. LOUIS CITY. It caters to 337 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%); the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of -5.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for St. Louis city put the typical household earns roughly $56,160 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across St. Louis city's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES is one campus in the mix.

KIPP VICTORY ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES has fell 39%, going from 550 students in 2018 to 337 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 85% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

On the community side, members of the SOLDAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.