OAK GROVE MIDDLE

OAK GROVE MIDDLE is one of the small 6-8 campuss in OAK GROVE, Missouri, operated by OAK GROVE R-VI, with 301 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 35% smaller than the state mean of about 461.

OAK GROVE MIDDLE is one of 4 schools operated by OAK GROVE R-VI, a district that enrolls 1,853 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OAK GROVE MIDDLE logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, OAK GROVE MIDDLE shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OAK GROVE MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.7%; this one comes in at 26.8%, -23.9 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows median household earnings sit near $68,577, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), OAK GROVE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

OAK GROVE ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAK GROVE MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OAK GROVE MIDDLE at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

OAK GROVE MIDDLE operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. OAK GROVE MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 30% since 2018, when it stood at 433 (now 301). The White share of enrollment edged down from 88% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the OAK GROVE MIDDLE community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.