WOERTHER ELEM.

Located at 314 NEW BALLWIN RD, in BALLWIN, Missouri, WOERTHER ELEM. is a reasonably sized elementary campus that instructs 423 students (grades K through 5), operated by ROCKWOOD R-VI. Enrollment runs roughly 34% larger than the state mean of about 315.

ROCKWOOD R-VI runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 19,597 students. WOERTHER ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, WOERTHER ELEM. shows that White students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder breaks down as 17% Asian, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 11% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against St. Louis County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WOERTHER 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 58.5%, a residual of +7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for St. Louis County shows median household earnings sit near $82,936, 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 WOERTHER ELEM. is one.

SELVIDGE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WOERTHER ELEM. at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. WOERTHER ELEM.'s enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 465 (now 423). The White share of enrollment shrank from 70% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for WOERTHER ELEM. typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.