About Lift for Life Academy
Lift for Life Academy is a public school system serving St. Louis City, Missouri, based in St Louis. It serves 865 students across 3 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: large district. By enrollment it is the #195 largest of Missouri’s 555 school systems.
Size and structure
Lift for Life Academy enrolls 865 students in 3 schools — an average of about 288 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #195 of 555 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Lift for Life Academy, from the NCES Common Core of Data (865 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Lift for Life Academy employs about 70 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1 — below the Missouri average of about 12.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 95.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Missouri funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Lift for Life Academy are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Missouri measures districts through the Missouri School Improvement Program (MSIP 6), whose Annual Performance Report (APR) scores academic achievement, growth, graduation, college-and-career readiness and attendance. Look up Lift for Life Academy on the MSIP / APR pages.
Accreditation status
Missouri assigns its own state accreditation status — accredited, provisionally accredited or unaccredited — based on the MSIP performance standards, separate from any voluntary Cognia accreditation a district may also hold. See the Missouri DESE for a district’s current status.
Lift for Life Academy vs. Missouri
See every Missouri district side by side in the Missouri directory.
Look up Lift for Life Academy’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):