Matthew J Kuss Middle

Matthew J Kuss Middle is a medium-sized middle school with an address in Fall River, Massachusetts. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 646 students in grades 6 through 8.

Matthew J Kuss Middle is among 19 schools run by Fall River, which serves 11,089 students.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Matthew J Kuss Middle. The largest is White students, at 38%. The next largest groups are 37% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Bristol County overall, about 77% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Dividing enrollment by its 62.4 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 10.4:1. That is lower than the 11.5:1 average for middle schools in Massachusetts.

County data help place the school in context: in Bristol County, the median household income is $85,625, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Bristol County is home to 142 public schools and about 80,897 public school students.

The shortest distance from Matthew J Kuss Middle to another public school is about 0.5 miles, to Carlton M. Viveiros Elementary School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Federal data place Matthew J Kuss Middle in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Over 4 years, Matthew J Kuss Middle's enrollment dropped 12%, to 646. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.4:1 in 2020-21 to 10.4:1 in 2024-25.

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