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What's one thing John R. Wooden Middle School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
576
Middle
DISTRICT 550 · STATE 594
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MSD MARTINSVILLE SCHOOLS·NCES 180651002600
John R. Wooden Middle School
109 East Garfield St, Martinsville, IN 46151 · (765) 342-6628 · Morgan County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL576 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 15.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
294 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
John R. Wooden Middle School→Martinsville High School
Based on grade levels within MSD Martinsville Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
35.4%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
36.8%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.4%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
576
-172 (-23%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 17.0:1
% White
93%
was 93%
% Hispanic
4%
was 2%
% Black
0%
was 1%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About John R. Wooden Middle School
John R. Wooden Middle School is a reasonably sized junior high in Martinsville, Indiana, run under MSD Martinsville Schools. The school enrolls 576 students in grades 6 through 8.
MSD Martinsville Schools comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 3,998 students; John R. Wooden Middle School is among them.
Demographically, John R. Wooden Middle School logs that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Morgan County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, John R. Wooden Middle School reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at John R. Wooden Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, John R. Wooden Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -3.4 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Morgan County) shows that median household earnings sit near $79,429, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. John R. Wooden Middle School is one of 22 public schools in Morgan County (combined enrollment of about 10,142 students).
Nearest neighbor: Poston Road Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, John R. Wooden Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.1%.
John R. Wooden Middle School operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 23%: 748 students in 2018 compared to 576 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Morgan County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
72,659
Census ACS
Median income
$79,429
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
10,142 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MSD Martinsville Schools
- Martinsville High SchoolHigh · 1,284 students
- Bell Intermediate AcademyMiddle · 524 students
- Charles L Smith Fine Arts AcademyElementary · 375 students
- South Elementary School of CommunicationsElementary · 302 students
- Brooklyn STEM AcademyElementary · 241 students
- Poston Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
Other schools in Martinsville
- Martinsville High SchoolHigh · 1,284 students
- Bell Intermediate AcademyMiddle · 524 students
- Waverly Elementary SchoolElementary · 404 students
- Charles L Smith Fine Arts AcademyElementary · 375 students
- South Elementary School of CommunicationsElementary · 302 students
- Poston Road Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
Nearby schools
- Poston Road Elementary School0.4 mi · 237
- Martinsville High School0.8 mi · 1,284
- Charles L Smith Fine Arts Academy0.8 mi · 375
- Bell Intermediate Academy0.9 mi · 524
- South Elementary School of Communications1.1 mi · 302
- Centerton Elementary School6.8 mi · 126
Frequently asked questions
About John R. Wooden Middle SchoolHow many students attend John R. Wooden Middle School?
John R. Wooden Middle School enrolls approximately 576 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does John R. Wooden Middle School serve?
John R. Wooden Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at John R. Wooden Middle School?
Approximately 11.8:1 students per teacher at John R. Wooden Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at John R. Wooden Middle School?
At John R. Wooden Middle School, the student body is approximately 93% White, 4% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is John R. Wooden Middle School public or private?
John R. Wooden Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by MSD Martinsville Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.