Spring Garden Middle School

Size

Spring Garden Middle School is the smallest of St. Joseph School District's 4 middle schools; its 404 students are 3.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 12.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 288; Spring Garden 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 7 with 144 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 118, against an average of 135 per grade. This year grade 8 has 20% more students than grade 6 (142 against 118). 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 White students: 70.5% here and 62% across St. Joseph. Hispanic students are next, at 13.9%. 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 74.4% across St. Joseph and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 30.7% 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 28.72 full-time-equivalent teachers for 404 students, Spring Garden Middle School has 14.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 404 students would have about 31.1 teachers, so Spring Garden Middle School has 2.4 fewer.

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

Location

Spring Garden Middle School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other middle school is Truman Middle School, 3.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 3 other middle schools, 2 of them within 5 miles.

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