East Middle School

Size

Of the 3 middle schools in Joplin Schools, East Middle School is the 2nd largest, with 7.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 7.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 639; East 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 206 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 181, against an average of 197 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% fewer students than grade 6 (181 against 205). 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 White students: 62% here and 65.6% across Joplin Schools. Hispanic students are next, at 16.9%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

69.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 66.2% across Joplin Schools and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 30.4% 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 41.37 full-time-equivalent teachers for 592 students, East Middle School has 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 592 students would have about 45.5 teachers, so East Middle School has 4.1 fewer.

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

Location

East Middle School is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, small. The nearest other middle school is South Middle School, 3.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 6 other middle schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

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