ANTIOCH MIDDLE

ANTIOCH MIDDLE is a sizable intermediate school in GLADSTONE, Missouri, operated by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. The school works with 886 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 92% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

ANTIOCH MIDDLE is one of 33 schools operated by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74, a district that educates 21,252 students overall.

In terms of who attends, ANTIOCH MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, ANTIOCH MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Clay County shows median household income runs about $88,468, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. ANTIOCH MIDDLE is one of 80 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students).

Nearest neighbor: MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ANTIOCH MIDDLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

ANTIOCH MIDDLE operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ANTIOCH MIDDLE has shrank 8%, going from 958 students in 2018 to 886 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 54% across the same window.

On this page, members of the ANTIOCH MIDDLE community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.