Smithton Middle School

Size

Smithton Middle School is the 2nd largest of Columbia 93 School District's 7 middle schools; its 605 students are 3.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 4.9 miles away and have a median of 566 students, so Smithton 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 6 with 224 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 185, against an average of 202 per grade. This year grade 8 has 17% fewer students than grade 6 (185 against 224). 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

White students are the largest group, at 59.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across Columbia 93 (51.8%). Black students are next, at 13.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

29.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 41.7% across Columbia 93 and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 11.4% 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

Smithton Middle School has 49.85 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 605 students would have about 46.5 teachers, so Smithton Middle School has 3.4 more.

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 city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other middle school is West Middle School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 5 middle schools within 5 miles and 6 within 10 miles.

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