The top reported proficiency rate is 11% in Science. The lowest is 9% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Herzog Elem.
Herzog Elementary is a regular public school in the St. Louis City school district, serving students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. This is a neighborhood school with an enrollment that is small for a K-6 building. Every student enrolled qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a measure of the community’s economic circumstances. The student body is entirely Black, based on the school’s reported demographics.
The school sits on the northern edge of St. Louis, an independent city with a diverse economy anchored by major hospitals, research universities, federal agencies, and a number of Fortune-ranked companies. The city’s cultural assets, including Forest Park, the zoo, and the art museum, are among its draws. Housing in the immediate zip code is priced well below the state and national medians, and the area has seen declines in home values recently, which is relevant context for a family assessing the neighborhood’s stability and investment.
State testing results for the 2024-25 school year are unusually sparse. For third grade math and English language arts, the proficiency figures were suppressed, meaning the state did not release a rate for groups of that size. Fourth grade math was also suppressed. For the results that were reported, the picture is one of very low attainment. In fourth grade ELA, roughly seven percent of tested students scored proficient or above. In fifth grade, it was about eleven percent in ELA and about eleven percent in science. Math results for fifth grade were again suppressed. The school’s overall proficiency index, which averages reported rates across all tested subjects and grades, places Herzog in the bottom quartile among the eighteen districts in St. Louis city. The district itself is a large urban system, and Herzog’s performance is on the lower end even within that context. A parent considering this school should seek to understand what academic supports are in place and how the school is working to address these outcomes.
Because the school serves only through sixth grade, there is no high school graduation rate or four-year cohort data to report. Information on chronic absenteeism and staffing was also unavailable. The district brief turned up no recent parent-relevant changes, such as a new strategic plan or boundary shift, to note.
Herzog Elementary is a small, high-poverty school in north St. Louis where the student body is uniformly Black and nearly every family is eligible for economic assistance. The state testing data that is available shows very low proficiency rates, and a sizable portion of results has been suppressed entirely, leaving a parent with an incomplete picture of how children are performing. A family in this attendance zone will want to speak directly with the school about its academic programming, intervention strategies, and how it measures progress for students whose test scores are too few to report publicly.
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