Thomas Jefferson Middle School

Size

Thomas Jefferson Middle School is the smallest of Jefferson City School District's 2 middle schools; its 927 students are 10.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 19.3 miles away and have a median of 497 students, so Thomas Jefferson 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 8 with 328 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 281, against an average of 309 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 318 in grade 6 and 328 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 59.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Jefferson City (60%). Black students are next, at 19.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

50.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 55.7% across Jefferson City and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 20.4% 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

Thomas Jefferson Middle School has 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 927 students would have about 71.3 teachers, so Thomas Jefferson Middle School has 6.7 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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other middle school is Lewis and Clark Middle School, 6.9 miles away in the same district. There are 0 middle schools within 5 miles and 2 within 10 miles.

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