In Missouri, 20.7% of Black students are proficient in math at the typical school — against 50.5% of White students. Within St. Louis City alone, the gap between the best and worst schools for Black children is 78 points. This tool helps you find the right one.
Search Missouri schools ›Share of students meeting proficient or advanced at the typical Missouri school. Groups are shown wherever Missouri reports them; a group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.
These figures come from DESE MAP 2025, measuring proficient or advanced in All Subjects · Grades 3–11. Across 104 districts, 700 Missouri schools report enough results to be included.
At the typical Missouri school the picture is black students at 22.1%, hispanic students at 33.4%, white students at 51.3% and asian students at 65.4%. That is a 43.3-point spread between the highest and lowest group, inside the same schools, the same districts and the same state — which is what this tool exists to make visible.
An A means 80% or more of Black students score Proficient or Advanced. Of 584 schools with at least 25 Black student results, not one reaches that bar. The highest in the state is 79.9%.
Metro High has 79.9% of its Black students proficient. Long Middle Community Ed. Ctr., in the same district, has 2.2%. Across 56 schools in one district, a child's address decides which end they land on.
Steam Academy Middle School in Ferguson-Florissant reaches 62.4% with 157 Black student results — the strongest result in the state at real scale, in a district often written off. These schools are proof the ceiling is not fixed.
These are the schools where Black students most often meet proficient or advanced, among those with at least 25 Black student results reported. Every group's result is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.
| School | All | Black | Hispanic | White | Asian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metro High SchoolSt. Louis City Magnet | 93.6% | 79.9% | — | 94.3% | — |
| Collegiate School Of Med/bioSt. Louis City Magnet | 85.9% | 77.4% | — | 95.7% | — |
| Franklin Smith ElementaryBlue Springs R-iv | 70.1% | 74% | 66.5% | 70.1% | — |
| Mallinckrodt A.b.i. ElementarySt. Louis City Magnet | 91% | 73% | — | 95.5% | — |
| Betty Wheeler Classical Junior AcSt. Louis City Magnet | 87.6% | 71.4% | — | 94.9% | — |
| Chapel Lakes ElementaryBlue Springs R-iv | 75.8% | 69.9% | — | 78.4% | — |
| James Walker ElementaryBlue Springs R-iv | 79% | 69.1% | 83.2% | 81.4% | — |
| Ft. Zumwalt North High SchoolFort Zumwalt School District | 69.4% | 62.5% | — | 72.2% | — |
| Steam Academy Middle SchoolFerguson-florissant R-ii | 69.1% | 62.4% | 93.7% | 78% | — |
| Cherokee Middle SchoolSpringfield R-xii | 69% | 58% | 70.1% | 70.9% | 61.8% |
Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.
The same measure at the other end of the range. In many of these schools every group is falling short, which points at the school rather than at the students in it.
| School | All | Black | Hispanic | White | Asian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Middle Community Education CenterSt. Louis City | 5.1% | 2.2% | 2.3% | 25.6% | 16.8% |
| Johnson Wabash 6th Grade CenterFerguson-florissant R-ii | 2.4% | 2.4% | 5.3% | — | — |
| Primitivo Garcia ElementaryKansas City 33 | 8.2% | 3.2% | 5.9% | — | — |
| Yeatman-liddell Middle SchoolSt. Louis City | 3.4% | 3.3% | — | — | — |
| Highland ElementaryRiverview Gardens | 4.4% | 3.6% | — | — | — |
| Hickey ElementarySt. Louis City | 3.7% | 3.8% | — | — | — |
| Froebel ElementarySt. Louis City | 3.9% | 4% | — | — | — |
| Stonegate ElementaryRaymore-peculiar R-ii | 34.4% | 4.3% | — | 50.5% | — |
| Columbia Elementary Comm. Education CenterSt. Louis City | 4.3% | 4.3% | — | — | — |
| Henry ElementarySt. Louis City | 8% | 4.4% | — | — | — |
In St. Louis City, Metro High School reports 79.9% of Black students meeting the standard. Long Middle Community Education Center, in the same district, reports 2.2%. That is a 77.7-point spread across 56 schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base — the clearest illustration of why address matters more than it should.
Districts with at least ten schools reporting Black student results, by school count. The percentage shown is the average across that district's schools for Black students.