Hoech Middle School

Size

Hoech Middle School is the smallest of Ritenour School District's 2 middle schools; its 664 students are 10.1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 630; Hoech 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 7 with 231 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 206, against an average of 221 per grade. This year grade 8 has 10% more students than grade 6 (227 against 206). 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 Black students: 45.5% here and 41.7% across Ritenour. Hispanic students are next, at 28.8%. 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 Ritenour and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 38.6% 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 52.59 full-time-equivalent teachers for 664 students, Hoech Middle School has 12.6 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 664 students would have about 51.1 teachers, so Hoech Middle School has 1.5 more.

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

Location

Hoech 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 Holman Middle School, 1.3 miles away in Pattonville R-III School District. Within 10 miles there are 37 other middle schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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