St. Paul's Lutheran School
1300 N Ballas Rd, Des Peres, MO 63131Open, per Google (checked Sep 20, 2026)
Key facts
- Tuition
- Not published
- Grades
- K-8
- Students (K-12)
- 212
- Students per teacher
- 12.2
- Affiliation
- Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod)
- From Kirkwood center
- 2.1 miles
Can you use MOScholars here?
Missouri publishes no school list
- About the list
- How the MOScholars list works
- Applying
- You apply through one of the state-approved Educational Assistance Organizations, not to the state directly.
Source: MOScholars official source.
What you would pay here
- Net cost
- Not worked out: no verified 2026-27 tuition yet. Check the school’s website
School facts
- Teachers
- 18
- Student body
- Coeducational
- Boys and girls
- 49% boys, 51% girls
- Setting
- Suburb
- Partner list
- Partner school of a state-certified educational assistance organization (Herzog Foundation); not a state list
- Partner list: the organization’s own list, as of August 4, 2026.
- School facts, kindergarten to grade 12: U.S. Department of Education, NCES Private School Survey 2023-24, read September 20, 2026.
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Students and school year
Enrollment over time
- 2019-20 to 2023-24
- 153 to 212, up 59 (39%)
- Path
- Grew in each survey (198 in 2021-22)
Students by grade, 2023-24
- Largest grade
- Grade 1 (33)
- Smallest grade
- Grade 6 and grade 7 (17 each)
- Across the grades
- Classes thin out toward the upper grades
The school year
- Days in the school year
- 180
- Length of the school day
- 7 hours 15 minutes
- Hours of school a year
- about 1,310
- Kindergarten
- Full day and half day offered, 5 days a week
- Classes, 2023-24
- In person
- Library or media center
- Yes
- Year, against Missouri
- 6 days longer than the 174-day median of 463 schools we list
- School day, against Missouri
- 15 minutes longer than the median of 7 hours (466 schools we list)
How it compares
- Students per teacher
- 12.2 here; median 10.8 at 269 MO elementary schools
- Size in St. Louis County
- Larger than 91 of 141 other schools we list
Student body, 2023-24
Shares of K-12 students by race and ethnicity, as NCES reports them.
- Grades, school year and student body: U.S. Department of Education, NCES Private School Survey 2023-24, read September 20, 2026.
- Earlier counts: NCES Private School Survey 2019-20 and 2021-22, read October 14, 2026.
- Comparisons: the private schools ChoiceFunded lists, as of this page’s last update.
St. Paul's Lutheran School tuition, and what MOScholars pays
- Published tuition
- No verified figure yet. Check the school’s website
- Nearby schools’ prices
- $8,420 to $13,780 a year, published by 2 private schools nearby. School by school
MOScholars Tax-credit scholarship
- Award
- Up to $7,145 per student for 2026-27, more for some students
- How it varies
- The law sets each ceiling as a share of the state adequacy target, which the Missouri education department lists as $7,145 for 2026-27: up to 100% of it for most students, 125% for students eligible for free or reduced lunch, 160% for English learners and 175% for students with an IEP. Worked example (our arithmetic, not a figure the state publishes): 175% of $7,145 is about $12,503. These are ceilings: assistance organizations may award less, and the average award in 2025-26 was $6,831.
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 7, 2026. Sources and how to apply
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Tuition at nearby private schools
| School | Published tuition | Year | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant Christian School | $13,780 | not stated | 1.1 |
| St. Gerard Majella Catholic School | $8,420 | 2026-27 | 1.3 |
Each figure was read on that school's own website. Ranges run from the lowest to the highest grade band.
Other private schools nearby
| School | Grades | Students | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Clement Grade School | PreK-8 | 275 | <1 |
| Covenant Christian School | PreK-6 | 140 | 1 |
| St. Gerard Majella Catholic School | PreK-8 | 457 | 1 |
| Villa Di Maria Montessori School | PreK-6 | 98 | 2 |
| Kirkwood Children's House | PreK-K | 12 | 2 |
| Raintree School | PreK-2 | 10 | 2 |
| Harper School | PreK-1 | 3 | 2 |
| Visitation Academy | PreK-12 | 555 | 2 |
Private schools
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