R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE

R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE, a moderately sized middle school in ST LOUIS, Missouri, overseen by RIVERVIEW GARDENS, hosts 578 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 25% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

Within RIVERVIEW GARDENS, which oversees 13 schools and 5,116 students, R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE logs that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.0:1, putting R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 58.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Louis County) shows that median household earnings sit near $82,936, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

GIBSON ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 54.5%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. R. G. CENTRAL MIDDLE's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 674 (now 578). Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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