Brookside Charter Middle School

Size

Brookside Charter Middle School is the only middle school in Brookside Charter School. Its 225 students are 28.1% of the district's 800. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 205; Brookside Charter Middle School is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 6 with 80 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 68, against an average of 75 per grade. This year grade 8 has 15% fewer students than grade 6 (68 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 85.3% here and 83.3% across Brookside Charter School. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Brookside Charter School and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 55.6% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 25.6 full-time-equivalent teachers for 225 students, Brookside Charter Middle School has 8.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 225 students would have about 17.3 teachers, so Brookside Charter Middle School has 8.3 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri middle schools (13).

Location

Brookside Charter Middle School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle School, 0.2 miles away in Ewing Marion Kauffman School. Within 10 miles there are 20 other middle schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.