Northern Middle School

Northern Middle School is a mid-sized middle school located in Somerset, Kentucky. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 797 students enrolled. By comparison, middle schools in Kentucky enroll about 558 students on average.

Pulaski County counts 14 schools and 7,729 students, including Northern Middle School.

White students are 88% of those enrolled at Northern Middle School. The rest of enrollment is 7% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 22%.

There are 46 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 17.3:1. The average for middle schools in Kentucky, 15.8:1, is lower. Of all students at Northern Middle School, 59% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.

On the allk12 Grade, Northern Middle School lands at A-, ahead of 82% of Kentucky public middle schools.

A school with Northern Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Kentucky is predicted to score 43.1%. Northern Middle School scores 51.4%, 8.3 points above that line.

For the population of Pulaski County, the median household earns about $51,898 a year, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 16% of residents are in poverty. Across Pulaski County, 19 public schools serve about 9,989 students.

Pulaski County High School is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Northern Middle School is 5th of 7 nearby schools with test data.

Its location is classified as Town: Remote by the National Center for Education Statistics.

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 797, down from 885 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 17.3 students per teacher, compared with 18.8 in 2020-21.

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