Washington Middle School

Size

Washington Middle School is the smallest of Mehlville R-IX School District's 4 middle schools; its 429 students are 4.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 574; Washington Middle School is smaller 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 153 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 124, against an average of 143 per grade. This year grade 8 has 23% more students than grade 6 (153 against 124). 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: 75.8% here and 78.8% across Mehlville R-IX. Black students are next, at 11.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

34.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.1% across Mehlville R-IX and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 13.1% 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

With 34.51 full-time-equivalent teachers for 429 students, Washington Middle School has 12.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 429 students would have about 33 teachers, so Washington Middle School has 1.5 more.

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

Location

Washington Middle School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other middle school is Robert H. Sperreng Middle School, 1.8 miles away in Lindbergh Schools. Within 10 miles there are 25 other middle schools, 7 of them within 5 miles.

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