Delta Woods Middle School

Size

Delta Woods Middle School is the 2nd largest of Blue Springs R-IV School District's 4 middle schools; its 831 students are 5.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 5.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 776; Delta Woods Middle School is close to their typical size.

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 285 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 264, against an average of 277 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 282 in grade 6 and 264 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 64.7% here and 64.6% across Blue Springs R-IV. Black students are next, at 16%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

22.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.6% across Blue Springs R-IV and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 8.1% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

With 54.02 full-time-equivalent teachers for 831 students, Delta Woods Middle School has 15.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 831 students would have about 63.9 teachers, so Delta Woods Middle School has 9.9 fewer.

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

Location

Delta Woods 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 Bernard C. Campbell Middle School, 3.3 miles away in Lee's Summit R-VII School District. Within 10 miles there are 17 other middle schools, 3 of them within 5 miles.

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