Grain Valley South Middle School

Size

Grain Valley South Middle School is the smallest of Grain Valley R-V School District's 2 middle schools; its 516 students are 11.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 5.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 822; Grain Valley South 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

Its largest grade is grade 8 with 197 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 156, against an average of 172 per grade. This year grade 8 has 26% more students than grade 6 (197 against 156). 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: 80.8% here and 78.3% across Grain Valley R-V. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

22.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 23.4% across Grain Valley R-V and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 5.4% 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 42.45 full-time-equivalent teachers for 516 students, Grain Valley South Middle School has 12.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 516 students would have about 39.7 teachers, so Grain Valley South Middle School has 2.8 more.

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

Location

Grain Valley South 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 Moreland Ridge Middle School, 3.5 miles away in Blue Springs R-IV School District. Within 10 miles there are 8 other middle schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

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