Seymour Middle School

Seymour Middle School is one of the medium-sized junior highs in Seymour, Indiana, overseen by Seymour Community Schools, with 778 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 31% larger than typical.

Seymour Community Schools comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,432 students; Seymour Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Seymour Middle School shows that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 47% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, Seymour Middle School reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Seymour Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.7%; this one delivers 27.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) shows that median household earnings sit near $70,262, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Jackson County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,459 students), Seymour Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Margaret R Brown Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Seymour Middle School. On composite proficiency, Seymour Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

Seymour Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 1,004 students in 2018 compared to 778 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 28% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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