VALLEY PARK ELEM.

VALLEY PARK ELEM. is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in VALLEY PARK, Missouri, overseen by VALLEY PARK, instructing 343 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in VALLEY PARK (734 students total), VALLEY PARK ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, VALLEY PARK ELEM. records that 71% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, VALLEY PARK ELEM. has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VALLEY PARK ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 39.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) reports that median household earnings sit near $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), VALLEY PARK ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: VALLEY PARK MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VALLEY PARK ELEM. at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VALLEY PARK ELEM. has shrank 15%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 343 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 18% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.