Margaret Buerkle Middle School

Size

Margaret Buerkle Middle School is the 3rd largest of Mehlville R-IX School District's 4 middle schools; its 549 students are 5.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 563; Margaret Buerkle 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 193 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 176, against an average of 183 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 176 in grade 6 and 180 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 69% here and 78.8% across Mehlville R-IX. Black students are next, at 11.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

51.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.1% across Mehlville R-IX and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 22.6% 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

With 45.83 full-time-equivalent teachers for 549 students, Margaret Buerkle Middle School has 12 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 549 students would have about 42.2 teachers, so Margaret Buerkle Middle School has 3.6 more.

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

Location

Margaret Buerkle 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 Bernard Middle School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 25 other middle schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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