Reidland Middle School

As a cozy middle-grades school in Paducah, Kentucky, Reidland Middle School hosts 350 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within McCracken County. Compared to the state average of about 558 students per school, that is 37% below typical.

McCracken County runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,780 students. Reidland Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Reidland Middle School records that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than McCracken County's rate of about 57%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Reidland Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (McCracken County) records that the typical household earns roughly $64,373 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McCracken County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,883 students), of which Reidland Middle School is one.

Reidland Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Reidland Middle School. On composite proficiency, Reidland Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 357 students in 2018 compared to 350 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 85% to 79%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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