Central Middle School

Size

Central Middle School is the 4th largest of Hazelwood School District's 6 middle schools; its 692 students are 4.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 508; Central Middle School is larger than most of them.

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 7 with 259 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 192, against an average of 231 per grade. This year grade 8 has 20% fewer students than grade 6 (192 against 241). 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: 95.1% here and 82.1% across Hazelwood. Students from 6 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 Hazelwood and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 44.2% 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 46.65 full-time-equivalent teachers for 692 students, Central Middle School has 14.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 692 students would have about 53.2 teachers, so Central Middle School has 6.6 fewer.

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

Location

Central Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is East Middle School, 2.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 20 other middle schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

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