Northside Middle School

Northside Middle School is one of the mid-tier intermediate schools in Muncie, Indiana, overseen by Muncie Community Schools, with 630 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Northside Middle School is one of 11 schools operated by Muncie Community Schools, a district that serves 5,188 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northside Middle School records that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 21% Black, 16% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, On paper, Northside Middle School has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Northside Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Delaware County put the typical household earns roughly $58,127 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Delaware County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,683 students), Northside Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Burris Laboratory School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northside Middle School. On composite proficiency, Northside Middle School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Northside Middle School's enrollment has climbed 9% since 2018, when it stood at 577 (now 630). White enrollment moved from 58% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.