North Middle School

Size

North Middle School is the 3rd largest of Hazelwood School District's 6 middle schools; its 702 students are 4.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 4.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 430; North Middle School is larger 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

Its largest grade is grade 8 with 244 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 217, against an average of 234 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% more students than grade 6 (244 against 217). 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: 83.2% here and 82.1% across Hazelwood. Students from 6 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 Hazelwood and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 34.9% 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 35.47 full-time-equivalent teachers for 702 students, North Middle School has 19.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 702 students would have about 54 teachers, so North Middle School has 18.5 fewer.

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

Location

North 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 Wedgwood 6th Grade Center, 2.1 miles away in Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District. Within 10 miles there are 20 other middle schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

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