Jefferson Middle School

Size

Of the 7 middle schools in Columbia 93 School District, Jefferson Middle School is the 3rd largest, with 3.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.4 miles away and have a median of 584 students, so Jefferson 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 8 with 219 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 183, against an average of 198 per grade. This year grade 8 has 15% more students than grade 6 (219 against 191). 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 61% of enrollment, a higher share than across Columbia 93 (51.8%). Black students are next, at 18.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

32.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.7% across Columbia 93 and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 15.2% 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

Jefferson Middle School has 50.64 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 593 students would have about 45.6 teachers, so Jefferson Middle School has 5 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other middle school is West Middle School, 1.8 miles away in the same district. There are 5 middle schools within 5 miles and 6 within 10 miles.

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