REED MIDDLE

REED MIDDLE is one of the medium-sized middle-grades schools in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, part of SPRINGFIELD R-XII, with 561 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 461.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 24,450 students. REED MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, REED MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Black, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Greene County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, REED MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.9%; actual is 19.4%, a gap of -30.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Greene County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,479, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Greene County's 97 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students), REED MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BOWERMAN ELEM., around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts REED MIDDLE at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at REED MIDDLE has decreased 17%, going from 674 students in 2018 to 561 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 76% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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