Truman Middle School

Size

Of the 4 middle schools in St. Joseph School District, Truman Middle School is the 2nd largest, with 4.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 10.9 miles away and have a median of 301 students, so Truman 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 250 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 236, against an average of 243 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 236 in grade 7 and 250 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 65.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across St. Joseph (62%). Hispanic students are next, at 12.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.4% across St. Joseph and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 32.1% 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

Truman Middle School has 37.11 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 486 students would have about 37.4 teachers, so Truman Middle School has about as many as that.

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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other middle school is Bode Middle School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 3 middle schools within 5 miles and 4 within 10 miles.

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