Summary:
The 63116 zip code area of St. Louis, Missouri is home to a single middle school, Long Middle Community Education Center, which serves grades 6-8. Based on the available data, this school appears to be struggling academically, with significantly below-average test scores and high chronic absenteeism rates compared to state and district averages.
Long Middle Community Education Center has a SchoolDigger rating of just 1 out of 5 stars, indicating it is one of the lower-performing middle schools in Missouri. In the 2024-2025 school year, only 2.2% of 6th graders were proficient or better in Mathematics, compared to 45.5% statewide. The school also had a chronic absenteeism rate of 50.1% in 2023-2024, which is extremely high and likely a major contributor to the low academic performance. Additionally, 100% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, suggesting a high-poverty student population.
Despite the school's higher-than-average per-student spending of $14,319 in 2021-2022 and a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 14.8, the academic outcomes remain poor. This suggests that simply increasing funding or reducing class sizes may not be enough to improve performance, and other factors, such as curriculum, teaching quality, and student engagement, may need to be addressed. The school's downward trend in the SchoolDigger rankings over the past few years is also concerning, indicating that the school's performance is not improving and may be getting worse.
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