About St. Louis City School District
St. Louis City School District is a public school system serving St. Louis City, Missouri, based in St Louis. It serves 17,933 students across 68 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: large district. By enrollment it is the #6 largest of Missouri’s 555 school systems.
Size and structure
St. Louis City School District enrolls 17,933 students in 68 schools — an average of about 264 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #6 of 555 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in St. Louis City School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (17,933 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
St. Louis City School District employs about 1,575 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 11.4:1 — below the Missouri average of about 12.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 2,026.
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 St. Louis City School District 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 St. Louis City School District 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.
St. Louis City School District vs. Missouri
See every Missouri district side by side in the Missouri directory.
Look up St. Louis City School District’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):