WYDOWN MIDDLE

Set in CLAYTON, Missouri, WYDOWN MIDDLE is a mid-tier middle school, part of CLAYTON. It serves 604 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% bigger than the state mean of about 461.

Within CLAYTON, which oversees 5 schools and 2,367 students, WYDOWN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WYDOWN MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Black, 11% Asian, 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting WYDOWN MIDDLE tighter 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. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WYDOWN MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $82,936 per year, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), WYDOWN MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

RALPH M. CAPTAIN ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WYDOWN MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 655 students in 2018 compared to 604 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 65% to 59%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.