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.

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