McNabb Middle School

McNabb Middle School is a junior high of heavily attended scale in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, one of the schools within Montgomery County, caters to 928 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 66% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Montgomery County comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,442 students; McNabb Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, McNabb Middle School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, McNabb Middle School has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, McNabb Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.3%; this one delivers 44.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $56,396 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,442 students), McNabb Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Montgomery County High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), McNabb Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 40%: 662 students in 2018 compared to 928 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.