Cross Keys Middle School

Size

Cross Keys Middle School is the largest of Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District's 5 middle schools; its 608 students are 6.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 2.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 430; Cross Keys 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 8 with 307 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 301, against an average of 304 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 301 in grade 7 and 307 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 88.2% here and 84.1% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II. 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 89.8% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 52% 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 38 full-time-equivalent teachers for 608 students, Cross Keys Middle School has 16 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 608 students would have about 46.8 teachers, so Cross Keys Middle School has 8.8 fewer.

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

Location

Cross Keys 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 Wedgwood 6th Grade Center, 0.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 22 other middle schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

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