Southeast Middle School

Size

Of the 6 middle schools in Hazelwood School District, Southeast Middle School is the 5th largest, with 3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 4.7 miles away and have a median of 289 students, so Southeast 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 98, against an average of 164 per grade. This year grade 8 has 53% fewer students than grade 6 (98 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 95.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Hazelwood (82.1%). Students from 4 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. 56.8% 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

Southeast Middle School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 491 students would have about 37.8 teachers, so Southeast Middle School has 2.8 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 East Middle School, 2.2 miles away in the same district. There are 5 middle schools within 5 miles and 23 within 10 miles.

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