MOUND CITY MIDDLE

MOUND CITY MIDDLE is an intermediate school of micro-enrollment scale in MOUND CITY, Missouri, one of the schools within MOUND CITY R-II, caters to 69 students in grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so MOUND CITY MIDDLE sits 85% below that benchmark.

MOUND CITY MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by MOUND CITY R-II, a district that teaches 268 students overall.

On the student-mix side, MOUND CITY MIDDLE logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 4% Hispanic. Compared to Holt County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MOUND CITY MIDDLE has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, MOUND CITY MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.6%; this one comes in at 27.9%, -22.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Holt County indicate median household income runs about $61,187, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. MOUND CITY MIDDLE is one of 8 public schools in Holt County (combined enrollment of about 624 students).

The closest other public school is MOUND CITY ELEM., roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOUND CITY MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MOUND CITY MIDDLE has shrank 22%, going from 88 students in 2018 to 69 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 100% to 91%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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