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WILD HORSE ELEM.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WILD HORSE ELEM.
WILD HORSE ELEM. operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, overseen by ROCKWOOD R-VI. Current enrollment sits at 464 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% larger than the state mean of about 315.
ROCKWOOD R-VI runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 19,597 students. WILD HORSE ELEM. is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, WILD HORSE ELEM. records that the largest single group is Asian at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% White, 9% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.
On the resource side, On paper, WILD HORSE ELEM. has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting WILD HORSE ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is south of typical.
With demographic context factored in, WILD HORSE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 54.6%, a residual of +3.5 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which WILD HORSE ELEM. is one.
The closest other public school is HIGHCROFT RIDGE ELEM., roughly 2.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILD HORSE ELEM. at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.5%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 464 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked up from 40% to 49% over that span.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the WILD HORSE ELEM. community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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