ROLLA MIDDLE

Set in ROLLA, Missouri, ROLLA MIDDLE is a heavily attended junior high, part of ROLLA 31. It educates 857 students across grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 86% bigger than the state mean of about 461.

Across the 6 schools in ROLLA 31 (4,161 students total), ROLLA MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, ROLLA MIDDLE lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian.

On the resource side, The school lists 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 47% of students at ROLLA MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, ROLLA MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 41.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Phelps County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,396 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Phelps County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,217 students), ROLLA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

ROLLA JR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around ROLLA MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROLLA MIDDLE at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 43.3%.

ROLLA MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 971 students in 2018 compared to 857 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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