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Town & Country, Missouri - 10 schools
4,148
Total Enrollment
10
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. operates 10 public schools serving 4,148 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 high, 3 elementary, 2 combined schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in St. Louis County.
The funding mix is 66.3% local, 21.5% state, and 12.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 161.9:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 33.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 48.4% African American, 43.0% White, 3.7% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Litzsinger, with a diversity index of 62.3/100.
Its largest campus is External Sites, enrolling 1,223 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Juvenile Detention Ctr., at 44 students, a 28x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
External Sites accounts for 29.5% of all Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co.-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. school enrollment varies 28× across entities
Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. school enrollment ranges from 44 students (lowest) to 1,223 students (highest), a spread of 1,179 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 54.4% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. student-counselor ratio is 162:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. chronic absenteeism rate is 33.4% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co.'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co.?
Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. has 10 schools, including 2 combined, 5 high, 3 elementary. Total enrollment is 4,148 students.
What is the demographic composition of Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co.?
Specl. Sch. Dst. St. Louis Co. students are 48.4% African American, 43.0% White, 3.7% Asian, 3.6% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 10 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.