Central Middle School

Size

Of the 3 middle schools in Kansas City 33 School District, Central Middle School is the smallest, with 2.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 220; 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 200 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 175, against an average of 188 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% fewer students than grade 7 (175 against 200). 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: 64% here and 46.2% across Kansas City 33. Hispanic students are next, at 22.7%. 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 Kansas City 33 and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 53.9% 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 29.33 full-time-equivalent teachers for 375 students, Central Middle School has 12.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 375 students would have about 28.8 teachers, so Central Middle School has about as many as that.

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 inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other middle school is Lincoln College Academy Middle School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 25 other middle schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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