ROCKWOOD SOUTH MIDDLE

Located at 1628 HAWKINS RD, in FENTON, Missouri, ROCKWOOD SOUTH MIDDLE is a well-populated intermediate school that serves 817 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within ROCKWOOD R-VI. That puts it 77% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

ROCKWOOD R-VI runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 19,597 students. ROCKWOOD SOUTH MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ROCKWOOD SOUTH MIDDLE logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below St. Louis County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROCKWOOD SOUTH MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate median household income runs about $82,936, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Louis County runs 275 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,601 students), of which ROCKWOOD SOUTH MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: KELLISON ELEM., around 0.2 miles off. 8 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), ROCKWOOD SOUTH MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 960 students in 2018 compared to 817 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 9% to 5%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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