SECKMAN MIDDLE

SECKMAN MIDDLE is one of the mid-sized junior highs in IMPERIAL, Missouri, one of the schools within FOX C-6, with 687 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 461.

FOX C-6 comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 10,258 students; SECKMAN MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, SECKMAN MIDDLE shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SECKMAN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of +2.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $82,851 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. SECKMAN MIDDLE is one of 69 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 36,216 students).

Nearest neighbor: SECKMAN ELEM., around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SECKMAN MIDDLE at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. SECKMAN MIDDLE's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 792 (now 687). The White share of enrollment fell from 92% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for SECKMAN MIDDLE typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.