SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intermediate school of mid-sized scale in SIKESTON, Missouri, one of the schools within SIKESTON R-6, educateing 493 students in grades 5 through 6.

SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 7 schools operated by SIKESTON R-6, a district that enrolls 3,277 students overall.

On demographics, SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Scott County (around 78%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 45.5%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Scott County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,782 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,999 students), of which SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SIKESTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SIKESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 538 students in 2018 compared to 493 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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