TOWNSEND ELEM.

Set in FLORISSANT, Missouri, TOWNSEND ELEM. is a mid-tier elementary school, part of HAZELWOOD. It hosts 351 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 31 schools in HAZELWOOD (16,321 students total), TOWNSEND ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, TOWNSEND ELEM. shows that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, TOWNSEND ELEM. has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, TOWNSEND ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.8%.

Across the wider county, St. Louis County reports that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which TOWNSEND ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: EAST EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TOWNSEND ELEM. at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. TOWNSEND ELEM.'s enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 339 (now 351).

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.