Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6
Pershing Elementary, St Joseph, MO
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 285
- Teachers (FTE)
- 20.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.2
- Grades
- K to 6
This school's ratio is 1.2 higher than the district figure of 13.0. The Missouri average across schools is 13.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 2610 Blackwell Rd, St Joseph, MO 64505
- Phone
- (816)671-4320
- District
- St. Joseph School District
- County
- Buchanan County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 292706001668
School meals
- Free lunch
- 285
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 285100.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 71Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in St. Joseph School District
- Carden Park Elementary 638 students
- Oak Grove Elementary 502 students
- Parkway Elementary 438 students
- Lindbergh Elementary 431 students
- Hosea Elementary 422 students
- Skaith Elementary 398 students
- Coleman Elementary 388 students
- Edison Elementary 362 students
- Hyde Elementary 352 students
- Ellison Elementary 343 students
- Field Elementary 336 students
- Pickett Elementary 250 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in St Joseph
- John Glenn Elementary Savannah R-Iii School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.