The St. Louis district covers 61 square miles and has 42,000 students. So Many Governments , notes that districts such as Hancock Place and Bayless also suffer from being too small. This was a group of people who argued from principles first, but even on that point, they said, 'No, not school districts. Jones says that the boundaries of school districts are even more sacrosanct than municipalities. There's a real pecking order in terms of socioeconomic status when it comes to school districts.
School districts are more sacred than zoning, and zoning is pretty sacred.
Tim Fischesser, executive director of the St. Louis County Municipal League, fears the similar demographics will lead to a decline in school performance. Obviously there's some challenges there that you're not going to see routinely in the Parkway or the Clayton school districts. We're having to deal with a lot of the issues I'm sure city schools deal with. North County already bears a greater share of subsidized public housing than any other section of the county, according to Bronwen Zwirner, executive director of the Metropolitan Equal Housing Opportunity Council. An awful lot of people start out in apartments, and they're very decent individuals.