R. G. Central Middle School

Size

R. G. Central Middle School is the largest of Riverview Gardens School District's 2 middle schools; its 578 students are 11.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.5 miles away and have a median of 294 students, so R. G. Central 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 208 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 184, against an average of 193 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% fewer students than grade 6 (184 against 208). 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 97.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Riverview Gardens (96.6%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.4% across Riverview Gardens and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 58% 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

R. G. Central Middle School has 41.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 578 students would have about 44.5 teachers, so R. G. Central Middle School has 3 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 Westview Middle School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 11 middle schools within 5 miles and 31 within 10 miles.

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