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STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO
STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO operates as a reasonably sized senior high in FERGUSON, Missouri, overseen by FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II. Current enrollment sits at 434 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
Across the 23 schools in FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II (8,809 students total), STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO logs that Black students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder is composed of 19% White, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.4%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO is one campus in the mix.
THE INNOVATION SCHOOL AT CV is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO. On composite proficiency, STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.
STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO operates from an outer-ring location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEAM ACADEMY AT MSB HIGH SCHO has declined 12%, going from 496 students in 2018 to 434 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 91% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.
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