Grand Center Arts Academy Middle School

Size

Grand Center Arts Academy Middle School is the only middle school in Confluence Academies. Its 218 students are 8.9% of the district's 2,460. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 341 students, so Grand Center Arts Academy Middle School is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 88 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 62, against an average of 73 per grade. This year grade 8 has 42% more students than grade 6 (88 against 62). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 78.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Confluence Academies (70.3%). White students are next, at 16.5%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 99.9% across Confluence Academies and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 45.4% 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

Grand Center Arts Academy Middle School has 19.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 218 students would have about 16.8 teachers, so Grand Center Arts Academy Middle School has 2.4 more.

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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. North Side Community-Grand Center (in North Side Community School) is listed at the same location. There are 14 middle schools within 5 miles and 35 within 10 miles.

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