Northwest Middle School

Size

Northwest Middle School is the largest of Hazelwood School District's 6 middle schools; its 770 students are 4.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.9 miles away and have a median of 595 students, so Northwest 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 6 with 265 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 250, against an average of 257 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 265 in grade 6 and 250 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 74.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Hazelwood (82.1%). White students are next, at 13.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Hazelwood and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 39% 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

Northwest Middle School has 38.53 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 770 students would have about 59.2 teachers, so Northwest Middle School has 20.7 fewer.

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 Cross Keys Middle School, 2.2 miles away in Ferguson-Florissant R-II School District. There are 7 middle schools within 5 miles and 22 within 10 miles.

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