Southside Middle School

As a compact middle-grades school in Muncie, Indiana, Southside Middle School hosts 469 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Muncie Community Schools. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so Southside Middle School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Across the 11 schools in Muncie Community Schools (5,188 students total), Southside Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Southside Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 22% Black, 14% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Southside Middle School shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.6:1 average. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southside Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.9%, the actual is 9.9%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Delaware County put the typical household earns roughly $58,127 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Delaware County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,683 students), Southside Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Grissom Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Southside Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 549 students in 2018 compared to 469 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 56% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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