Discovery Middle School

Size

Discovery Middle School is the 3rd largest of Liberty 53 School District's 4 middle schools; its 678 students are 5.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 4 miles away and have a median of 723 students, so Discovery 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 6 with 248 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 213, against an average of 226 per grade. This year grade 8 has 14% fewer students than grade 6 (213 against 248). 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

White students are the largest group, at 67.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across Liberty 53 (73.4%). Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

18.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 23.8% across Liberty 53 and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 6.3% 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

Discovery Middle School has 48.73 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 678 students would have about 52.2 teachers, so Discovery Middle School has 3.5 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other middle school is South Valley Middle School, 0.1 miles away in the same district. There are 6 middle schools within 5 miles and 14 within 10 miles.

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