HERMITAGE MIDDLE

HERMITAGE MIDDLE operates as an one-room-style intermediate school in HERMITAGE, Missouri, one of the schools within HERMITAGE R-IV. Current enrollment sits at 63 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 461 students per school, that is 86% smaller than typical.

HERMITAGE MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by HERMITAGE R-IV, a district that caters to 289 students overall.

Demographically, HERMITAGE MIDDLE lists that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Hickory County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at HERMITAGE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hickory County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HERMITAGE MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 38.7%.

Across the wider county, Hickory County reports that median household income runs about $39,390, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HERMITAGE MIDDLE is one of 10 public schools in Hickory County (combined enrollment of about 1,618 students).

HERMITAGE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HERMITAGE MIDDLE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

HERMITAGE MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 13%: 56 students in 2018 compared to 63 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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