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WABASH ELEMENTARY
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 32 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 27 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
About WABASH ELEMENTARY
Located at 100 GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY, in WENTZVILLE, Missouri, WABASH ELEMENTARY is a large elementary school that enrolls 745 students (grades K through 5), part of WENTZVILLE R-IV. Enrollment runs roughly 137% larger than the state mean of about 315.
Within WENTZVILLE R-IV, which oversees 22 schools and 18,469 students, WABASH ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.
Demographically, WABASH ELEMENTARY logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with St. Charles County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting WABASH ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against St. Charles County (around 19%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WABASH ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +0.1 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Charles County indicate median household income runs about $104,692, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Charles County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), of which WABASH ELEMENTARY is one.
Nearest neighbor: NORTH POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WABASH ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
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