Hickory Hills Middle School

Size

Of the 10 middle schools in Springfield R-XII School District, Hickory Hills Middle School is the 6th largest, with 1.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 5.4 miles away and have a median of 405 students, so Hickory Hills 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 6 with 166 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 140, against an average of 152 per grade. This year grade 8 has 16% fewer students than grade 6 (140 against 166). 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

White students are the largest group, at 77% of enrollment, a higher share than across Springfield R-XII (68.4%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

52.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.6% across Springfield R-XII and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 23.5% 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

Hickory Hills Middle School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 456 students would have about 35.1 teachers, so Hickory Hills Middle School has 6.1 fewer.

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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other middle school is Pershing Middle School, 4.2 miles away in the same district. There is 1 middle school within 5 miles and 11 within 10 miles.

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