Meece Middle School

Set in Somerset, Kentucky, Meece Middle School is a reasonably sized intermediate school, one of the schools within Somerset Independent. It instructs 486 students across grades 5 through 8.

Somerset Independent runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,762 students. Meece Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Meece Middle School shows that 80% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Pulaski County as a whole is about 94% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 66% 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, Meece Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.4%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of +2.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Pulaski County) records that median household earnings sit near $51,898, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pulaski County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,989 students), Meece Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hopkins Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Meece Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meece Middle School has changed only slightly, going from 475 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025.

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