CENTRAL MIDDLE

As a high-enrollment intermediate school in FLORISSANT, Missouri, CENTRAL MIDDLE serves 692 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by HAZELWOOD. Compared to the state average of about 461 students per school, that is 50% larger than typical.

CENTRAL MIDDLE is one of 31 schools operated by HAZELWOOD, a district that serves 16,321 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CENTRAL MIDDLE logs that nearly all students (95%) are Black; the rest breaks down as 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CENTRAL MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,936, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which CENTRAL MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is JAMESTOWN ELEM., roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL MIDDLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 24%: 908 students in 2018 compared to 692 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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