Johnson Wabash 6th Grade Center

Size

Johnson Wabash 6th Grade Center is the 3rd largest of Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District's 5 middle schools; its 278 students are 3.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 417 students, so Johnson Wabash 6th Grade Center 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

Johnson Wabash 6th Grade Center serves a single grade, grade 6, with 278 students.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 86% of enrollment, about the same share as across Ferguson-Florissant R-II (84.1%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

64.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.8% across Ferguson-Florissant R-II and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 55.4% 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

Johnson Wabash 6th Grade Center has 21.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 278 students would have about 21.4 teachers, so Johnson Wabash 6th Grade Center has about as many as that.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other middle school is Ferguson Middle School, 0.1 miles away in the same district. There are 16 middle schools within 5 miles and 35 within 10 miles.

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