ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOL

ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOL is one of the expansive middle-grades schools in COLUMBIA, Missouri, run under COLUMBIA 93, with 736 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 60% above the state mean of about 461.

Across the 34 schools in COLUMBIA 93 (18,640 students total), ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 16% Black, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 61.8%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Boone County put the typical household earns roughly $72,758 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Boone County runs 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,547 students), of which ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOL is one.

ROCK BRIDGE SR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ANN HAWKINS GENTRY MID. SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 66.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 898 students in 2018 compared to 736 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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