Daviess County Middle School

Set in Owensboro, Kentucky, Daviess County Middle School is a high-enrollment intermediate school, run under Daviess County. It serves 870 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 56% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Daviess County runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 10,948 students. Daviess County Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Daviess County Middle School logs that nearly all students (82%) are White; the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Daviess County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Daviess County Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Daviess County shows median household earnings sit near $68,214, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Daviess County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students), Daviess County Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Highland Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Daviess County Middle School. On composite proficiency, Daviess County Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Daviess County Middle School has rose 3%, going from 842 students in 2018 to 870 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 82% across the same window.

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