Orchard Farm Middle School

As an intimate middle-grades school in ST CHARLES, Missouri, Orchard Farm Middle School instructs 362 students from grades 5 through 6, one of the schools within ORCHARD FARM R-V. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

ORCHARD FARM R-V runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,241 students. Orchard Farm Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Orchard Farm Middle School records that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest looks like 13% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Orchard Farm Middle School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Orchard Farm Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 39.2%, a residual of -11.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (St. Charles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $104,692 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, St. Charles County runs 93 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,314 students), of which Orchard Farm Middle School is one.

Orchard Farm Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Orchard Farm Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Orchard Farm Middle School's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 428 (now 362). Over the same period, the White share declined from 80% to 68%.

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