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WREN HOLLOW ELEM.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WREN HOLLOW ELEM.
WREN HOLLOW ELEM. is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in BALLWIN, Missouri, overseen by PARKWAY C-2, with 409 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% bigger than the state mean of about 315.
PARKWAY C-2 runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 16,759 students. WREN HOLLOW ELEM. is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, WREN HOLLOW ELEM. reports that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest looks like 9% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.
After controlling for student poverty, WREN HOLLOW ELEM. is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.0%; WREN HOLLOW ELEM. posts 24.6%, -26.4 points below that line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) shows that median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. WREN HOLLOW ELEM. is one of 275 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students).
Nearest neighbor: SOUTHWEST MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WREN HOLLOW ELEM. at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.7%.
WREN HOLLOW ELEM. operates from a commuter-belt location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WREN HOLLOW ELEM. has held roughly steady, going from 401 students in 2018 to 409 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share increased from 68% to 75%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.
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