Westport Middle School

Size

Westport Middle School is the 8th largest of Springfield R-XII School District's 10 middle schools; its 399 students are 1.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest middle schools sit a median 3.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 522; Westport 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 6 with 149 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 113, against an average of 133 per grade. This year grade 8 has 24% fewer students than grade 6 (113 against 149). 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: 59.1% here and 68.4% across Springfield R-XII. Hispanic students are next, at 15.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

80.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.6% across Springfield R-XII and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 46.4% 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

With 35.85 full-time-equivalent teachers for 399 students, Westport Middle School has 11.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 399 students would have about 30.7 teachers, so Westport Middle School has 5.2 more.

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

Location

Westport Middle School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other middle school is Willard Intermediate-South, 1.8 miles away in Willard R-II School District. Within 10 miles there are 14 other middle schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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