Hancock Place Middle School

Size

Hancock Place Middle School is the only middle school in Hancock Place School District. Its 266 students are 20.7% of the district's 1,282. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 552; Hancock Place 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 7 with 98 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 79, against an average of 89 per grade. This year grade 8 has 13% more students than grade 6 (89 against 79). 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: 52.3% here and 53% across Hancock Place. Black students are next, at 22.6%. 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 Hancock Place and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 43.6% 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 18.97 full-time-equivalent teachers for 266 students, Hancock Place Middle School has 14 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 266 students would have about 20.5 teachers, so Hancock Place Middle School has 1.5 fewer.

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

Location

Hancock Place 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 Margaret Buerkle Middle School, 2 miles away in Mehlville R-IX School District. Within 10 miles there are 31 other middle schools, 9 of them within 5 miles.

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