John B. Lange Middle School

Size

John B. Lange Middle School is the smallest of Columbia 93 School District's 7 middle schools; its 510 students are 2.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 5.8 miles away and have a median of 584 students, so John B. Lange 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 179 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 153, against an average of 170 per grade. This year grade 8 has 14% fewer students than grade 6 (153 against 178). 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 38% of enrollment, a higher share than across Columbia 93 (21.9%). White students are next, at 36.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

61% 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. 27.8% 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

John B. Lange Middle School has 46.57 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 510 students would have about 39.2 teachers, so John B. Lange Middle School has 7.4 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other middle school is Oakland Middle School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. There are 3 middle schools within 5 miles and 7 within 10 miles.

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