KINGSTON MIDDLE

KINGSTON MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of one-room-style scale in CADET, Missouri, overseen by KINGSTON K-14, enrolling 169 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 63% smaller than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

Within KINGSTON K-14, which oversees 4 schools and 831 students, KINGSTON MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KINGSTON MIDDLE records that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, KINGSTON MIDDLE reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, KINGSTON MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.4%; this one comes in at 10.9%, -38.5 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Washington County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,043 per year, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Washington County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,450 students), of which KINGSTON MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is KINGSTON PRIMARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KINGSTON MIDDLE comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 189 students in 2018 compared to 169 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

On the community side, members of the KINGSTON MIDDLE community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.