WALNUT GROVE ELEM.

WALNUT GROVE ELEM. is a reasonably sized primary school in FERGUSON, Missouri, overseen by FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II. The school teaches 368 students in grades pre-K through 2.

Across the 23 schools in FERGUSON-FLORISSANT R-II (8,809 students total), WALNUT GROVE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WALNUT GROVE ELEM. shows that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, St. Louis County reports that median household income runs about $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), WALNUT GROVE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

MCCLUER HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 474 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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