Northwest Middle School

Set in Meridian, Mississippi, Northwest Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, part of Meridian Public Schools. It teaches 484 students across grades 6 through 8.

Meridian Public Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,385 students. Northwest Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northwest Middle School lists that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 4% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lauderdale County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Lauderdale County shows the typical household earns roughly $50,817 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Northwest Middle School is one of 24 public schools in Lauderdale County (combined enrollment of about 10,325 students).

West Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Northwest Middle School's enrollment has grew 5% since 2018, when it stood at 461 (now 484). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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