East Middle School

Size

Of the 6 middle schools in Hazelwood School District, East Middle School is the smallest, with 1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 508; East Middle School is smaller 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

East Middle School serves a single grade, grade 8, with 167 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 92.2% here and 82.1% across Hazelwood. Students from 5 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 Hazelwood and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 41.9% 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 30.68 full-time-equivalent teachers for 167 students, East Middle School has 5.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 167 students would have about 12.8 teachers, so East Middle School has 17.9 more.

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 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Central Middle School, 2.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 27 other middle schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

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