Public school / Primary
Belair Elem.
Jefferson City, Missouri
- NCES ID
- 291619000746
- District
- Jefferson City
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Belair Elem. is a public primary school in Jefferson City, Missouri, run by Jefferson City. It enrols 377 students — the 54428th largest of 2,483 public schools in Missouri.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
377
Teachers
30.0
Students per teacher
12.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
55.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Jefferson City
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Capital City High School1,404 students
- 2Jefferson City High1,296 students
- 3Lewis and Clark Middle1,005 students
- 4Thomas Jefferson Middle957 students
- 5Pioneer Trail Elementary477 students
- 6Clarence Lawson Elem.419 students
- 7North Elem.395 students
- 8Belair Elem.377 students
- Enrollment+11.9%
- Teachers+25.0%
- Students per teacher−2.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+12.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory