Owensboro Middle School

Owensboro Middle School is a 6-8 campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Owensboro, Kentucky, one of the schools within Owensboro Independent, caters to 790 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 42% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Owensboro Middle School is one of 10 schools operated by Owensboro Independent, a district that hosts 5,035 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Owensboro Middle School logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Daviess County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Owensboro Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Daviess County put median household income runs about $68,214, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Daviess County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students), Owensboro Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Owensboro Innovation Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Owensboro Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Owensboro Middle School's enrollment has climbed 10% since 2018, when it stood at 715 (now 790). The White share of enrollment fell from 61% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.