WOODWARD ELEM.

Set in ST LOUIS, Missouri, WOODWARD ELEM. is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, overseen by ST. LOUIS CITY. It hosts 319 students across grades pre-K through 5.

ST. LOUIS CITY comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 17,933 students; WOODWARD ELEM. is among them.

Demographically, WOODWARD ELEM. lists that Black students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 7% White, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, St. Louis city as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, WOODWARD ELEM. records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at WOODWARD ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WOODWARD ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.6%.

Around the school, census data for St. Louis city shows median household earnings sit near $56,160, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, St. Louis city runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,941 students), of which WOODWARD ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: LYON AT BLOW ELEM., around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WOODWARD ELEM.. On composite proficiency, WOODWARD ELEM. comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. WOODWARD ELEM.'s enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 313 (now 319). Black enrollment moved from 78% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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