Shoals Middle School

As a micro-enrollment junior high in Shoals, Indiana, Shoals Middle School enrolls 126 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Shoals Community School Corp. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 79% below typical.

Shoals Community School Corp comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 603 students; Shoals Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Shoals Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%). Compared to Martin County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.6:1, putting Shoals Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 2% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Martin County's rate of about 31%.

With demographic context factored in, Shoals Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 73.8%; this one comes in at 19.4%, -54.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Martin County indicate median household income runs about $68,594, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Martin County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,365 students), of which Shoals Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Shoals Community Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Shoals Middle School. On composite proficiency, Shoals Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Shoals Middle School's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 148 (now 126). Class-load math has loosened: from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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